-- On 7 Dec 2003 at 21:06, proclus@gnu-darwin.org wrote:
many here likely would not be happy if I called myself libertarian, because I feel that corporations are titanic forces unfriendly to the vast majority of human beings and unworthy of human liberty.
Everyone agrees that big corporations are oppressive, bureaucratic, inefficient, etc. No one more so than the management advisers to big corporations. Trouble is when you say they are unworthy of liberty, the implication is let us transfer power to something a great deal bigger. This is the "big tobacco' rhetoric -- a restriction supposedly on corporations must always necessarily manifest as restrictions on individual people, and usually, as in the case of the "big tobacco' rhetoric, it was quite obviously the intent of those using this rhetoric to impose restrictions on individual people. Those using this rhetoric believe they know better than other people what is good for those other people, and intend to whack those other people for their own good. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG h0PDSIpmiXP6g+EXs3how/E0TY9et8gJKr2+nS0w 4z3+n+3NXrRvBDk0BaUUE8TzqII22OrrXWgqmSfhP