Re: Random comments on some late discussions.

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 10:59:57 MST


michael.bast@convergys.com wrote:
>
> But, if you get rid of the programs people want, you ARE making them do things
> your way. Not that's it's
> likely you'll be able to get rid of something people want, though. That's more
> what I was talking about than your specific
> comments. If we get our way, others won't get theirs, there are more of them
> than us, and so we have to take that into account.
> Taking the rest of your comment into it, I think you and I are largely saying
> the same thing, that we have to include subjects
> and people who don't have all our goals, in order to get even some of them.

Thats a straw man, the old hostage taker guilt trip. Is using force to
stop people from using force wrong or hypocritical? That is the whole
principle of self defense. Eliminating programs that depend upon the
involuntary confiscation of private property to exist is not wrong.

I want a new Lamborghini. I think the government should provide me with
one. If you prevent me from making the government give me one, paid for
from money confiscated from you, then are you wrong to do so? I don't
think so.



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