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How can we gaurantee that there are no government obstacles to the capitalist distribution of these devices? There might be a situation such that only those in a position to block scientific advance know about the scientific advance, other than the researcher/developer himself. It is unfortunate that a young John Galt would likely be easily bought off by collectively-extorted dollars (tax money). The silence of the innovator purchased, the government then maintains its ill-gotten power by supporting outmoded technologies that are easiest to tax and regulate.

Consider the evolutionary forces placed on government: there is a tendency for it to multiply the attitudes of the lowest common denominator among us (the luddite/green mentality). As the lowest common denominator becomes more aware (through necessity) the greatest common denominator (innovators) is restrained. Sound money and economic freedom will therefore lag behind minor gains in the protection of personal private property rights.

Those innovators who INSIST that they earn what they would have earned without government intervention are typically placated with payouts. Lacking a background in ethics that they have not been exposed to, they often accept the payouts and/or restrictions on their work.

Thus I urge anyone on the cusp of exponential breakthrough to follow their own development path, paying close attention (using foresight’s guidelines) to the potential destructive side of their work. Don’t beg the FDA for permission, just do the work. When it comes time to profit from your work, smuggle it to market, or sell it in areas of the world with little government, rewarding their minimal governments with prosperity ( http://www.libertario.org ).

By the time the world’s governments become aware of what you are doing, and threaten you financially, demanding a large share of your work/wealth, you will be able to operate from a position of strength. Hopefully you will have achieved market penetration by that point, and can find a single sympathetic juror, assuming they give you a trial. It only takes one juror to hang a prosecution, and you can also aid that fact by being ready to have your family and friends communicate to your jury, with the fliers on jury rights available at http://www.fija.org and http://www.isil.org .
The tech-sympathetic works of Ayn Rand ( http://www.aynrand.org ) are also a good way to begin the study of ethics that is so profoundly absent from most highschool and university curricula.

I hope that this advice is useful to someone who hadn’t previously considered these points, because if you’d already considered these ideas, they would seem awfully simplistic. The above links are a good starting point to examine these ideas in greater complexity. Another good source for individualist/independent thought is http://www.reason.com

–With malice toward none–