On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 05:32:15PM -0400, William H. Geiger III wrote: [...]
Both of your examples only go to prove the point of anarchy is better then governments.
Yes, in the same sense that you can say that unicorns are better than horses. But horses are real, and unicorns are imaginary. Unicorns have all the advantage -- we don't have to deal with unicorn shit. Governments are real, and anarchy is a utopian ideal, just like communism. [...]
In Germany, as in all mass murders, was the act of the *Governemnt*.
No matter how you add the numbers up there has been many many more deaths caused by governments than there ever has or will be by criminal.
A meaningless assertion. Like saying "all people who die breathed air, therefore air is the cause of death". You say "guns don't murder people, people murder people", therefore it follows "Governments don't murder people, people murder people." Governments are instruments of people, not independent intelligent agents. You create this bogeyman, the *GOVERNMENT*, and blame everything on it. Now, you have identified the source of all evil. You imagine a fantasy hero, Anarchy, with its invincible magic sword, Cryptography, that can defeat the bogeyman. With this comforting theology you swagger down the cryptoanarchy dreamscape, your head filled with the rightness of your cause, and your righteous piece on your hip, ready to dispense sudden death to anyone who breaks your rules. A comforting dream, to be sure. But a dream. Government is a reality. All empirical evidence points to government being an inevitable part of the human condition. Anarchy is a fantasy. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html