Date sent: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:30:23 -0800 (PST) From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: The Education Function To: extropians@extropy.com Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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After you overthrow all the foreign governments and install your
dictatorship of the individual there so we have no foreign threats,
come talk to us. Until then, Realpolitik takes precedence over your
particular utopianism.
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> ---Emmanuel Charpentier <manu@cybercable.fr> wrote:
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> > Terry Donaghe wrote:
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> > > I further posit that there are no services "inappropriate or
> > > impossible" for the private market to provide. Please list
> examples.
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> > I think the difference capitalism/socialism is about
> > competition/cooperation. And there might be times when nationwide
> > cooperation is necessary. War time? Fight against disease? Talks with
> > other groups of people?
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> > So, I go for a government that would primarily have two
> > responsibilities: defense and diplomacy. Or do you think enterprises
> > could manage that too???
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> > Manu.
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> What use is diplomacy without governments? Who do you negotiate with
> when you're looking at a continent full of sovereign individuals?
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> Defense can and should be provided by the free market system.
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> I contend that no form of government can exist that is moral - since
> government rely on coercive means to raise money (i.e. theft) they are
> immoral - evil.
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> Since there can be no moral governments, then there should be no
> governments. Support of government = support of theft and violence.
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