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The discussion about whether outsourcing business is a national security risk was interesting because one's opinion is closely tied to their ideas about what a nation-state is. One could argue, as I do here, that at a society, in the very basic sense, is merely a collection of business transactions. Business transactions are merely a way of the market distributing resources. Also, a society is merely a collection of people that use resources in a way that everyone is better off than each individual trying to go out and find resources on their own. Out of a society, a nation will be formed to protect the production and use of these resources from other groups of people. Therefore, in a way, the only threat to national security that exists is outsourcing business processes. Granted, it really depends on how one defines everything that goes into these thoughts. This is not to say that I disagree with outsourcing. In fact, under this line of thought, outsourcing actually combines both "societies" into one. However, the problem is with how the nations have formed because the national interests may conflict with how the resources move between the citizens of differing nations. I could go on forever with some of these topics.

The next topic is the online law services. I am obviously bias to this issue as I will soon become a lawyer and charge for my services. However, this raises some points that I think are related to outsourcing and the use of technology to solve business issues. I think that the professor was probably fine in setting up his LLC with the online service because it did not seem to be a very complicated or extensive business. However, the thought purchasing legal services online seems like an extremely risky thing to do because things can be so much more complicated than most people think. My point is not about law, but more about how people need to be conscious about what the consequences are when they use technology or outsource. There are certain things that should never be outsourced because the consequences of getting something wrong is too great.