Jim Choate wrote:
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote:
There are certain problems that no other solution for has ever been found.
And this one doesn't either.
There has never been a human society that did not kill people.
People kill people you idiot. Don't confuse WHAT and HOW something is done with the WHY.
'the government' never did a damn thing. It can't because it isn't.
bzzt, wrong. see, "the government" is collecting taxes. hold on, hold on! let me finish the paragraph, please. and sit down. thanks. now, you'll of course say that some *people* are collecting the taxes. yes, there are some accountants who do the physical job. but they are not only 100% replacable, they will also say - if asked - that they do it *for* someone, i.e. "the government". yes you are right that if everyone on the planet would reject a job as tax collector, there would be no tax collectors. however, we are all aware that saying something like "everyone" when you're referring to several million/billion/lots-of people doesn't work. so for practical purposes, the tax collectors can be ignored in the very same sense that *I* am writing this mail, not the keyboard I'm typing on. the point is: any sufficiently large group of people develops structures and dynamics that go beyond the individual persons. that's pretty much an accepted fact ever since DeBono, i.e. 1915 or whatever it was.