Date sent: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:37:34 -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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> ---"Joe E. Dees" <jdees0@students.uwf.edu> wrote:
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> > From: EvMick@aol.com
> > Date sent: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:13:06 EST
> > To: extropians@extropy.com
> > Subject: Re: The Education Function
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> > > In a message dated 12/12/98 4:42:00 PM Central Standard Time,
> > > jdees0@students.uwf.edu writes:
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> > > > What about as an instrument for preserving our environment (which
> > > > the private sector has shamelessly trashed), a global problem
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> > > > amenable to individual or corporate solutions, and guaranteeing
> > > > basic human righrs for its citizens (which other citizens, and
> > > > corporations, are, sadly, only too willing to abrogate, violate
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> > > > ignore)?
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> > > I beleive that if you check into it you'll find that you are
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> > > assumption. Generally speaking private property is taken care of
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> > > owners better than "government" property. For illustrations of
> that look at
> > > the ruins of the Soviet Union and the damage they did to the
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> > > Also strong governments mean abuse of individual rights.
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> > > EvMick
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> > The Soviets are a prime example of MY thesis; they behaved like
> > one big corporation, where their proletariat (labor) basically had no
> > vote, and their commissars (management) had no conscience.
> > Representative participatory democracies are indeed beginning to
> > clean up their act, in response to the expressed will of their
> > electorates, and to help others, like the Soviets, clean up theirs.
> > Joe
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> Who should be responsible for YOUR property? You or the government?
> Remember, the government is the one holding a gun to your head...
I notice you avoided answering my question; this is probably
because you have none. Also, as long as air and groundwater do
not recognize property boundary lines, a gun SHOULD be held
(figuratively speaking) to my head if I act IRresponsibly and persist
in fouling everyone's nest by shamelessly releasing pollutants on
"my" land. Joe
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