You have a driveway in front of your house, connected to the street, on your private property. A large tractor-trailer loaded full of radioactive toxic explosives parks on your entire driveway and part of your lawn, with no notice to, nor consent or permission from you.
Yes, the tractor-trailer *can* drive onto your driveway, but does that make it appropriate, legal, or even the responsibility of the homeowner if the thing parks there and the city wants to charge the homeowner extra personal property taxes because of it being on their property? No; that is the sole responsibility of the party who (illegally) put the tractor-trailer there. It's the same with spam, which is miscategorized attempts at coersion. Actually, the spam is worse, because where the tractor trailer is simply miscategorized (misparked), the spam is attempting to coerce you into something against your will (influence you in some way wrongly due to its illegal means of miscategorization); it's as if not only that tractor-trailer had that horrible cargo, but it was also a terrorist act of a political group attempting to get you to do something.
The question is: would the government think that you are responsible for the terrorists terrorizing you?
That's spam. A virus: it's similar to spam in many ways. I think that you are being way too prejuduiced in your approach to logical thinking.
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I think this anology is more accurate:
You have a driveway in front of your house, connected to the street, on your private property. A large tractor-trailer loaded full of radioactive toxic explosives parks on your entire driveway and part of your lawn, with no notice to, nor consent or permission from you.
Yes, the tractor-trailer *can* drive onto your driveway, but does that make it appropriate, legal, or even the responsibility of the homeowner if the thing parks there and the city wants to charge the homeowner extra personal property taxes because of it being on their property? No; that is the sole responsibility of the party who (illegally) put the tractor-trailer there. It's the same with spam, which is miscategorized attempts at coersion. Actually, the spam is worse, because where the tractor trailer is simply miscategorized (misparked), the spam is attempting to coerce you into something against your will (influence you in some way wrongly due to its illegal means of miscategorization); it's as if not only that tractor-trailer had that horrible cargo, but it was also a terrorist act of a political group attempting to get you to do something.
The question is: would the government think that you are responsible for the terrorists terrorizing you?
That's spam. A virus: it's similar to spam in many ways. I think that you are being way too prejuduiced in your approach to logical thinking.