On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote:
I call such incompliance evolutionary pressure. Let us hope that you are not really such a complete nincompoop as to get into the middle of a 200-mile diameter stretch of desert without having provided for your own sustenance or transport the hell out of there. Freedom entails not just the right, but the *RESPONSIBILITY*, to take care of yourself. As the sole posessor of the right to get yourself into such a situation, you are also the sole posessor of the responsibility to make sure you can get out of it.
Oh but it is quite possible to put people in similar trouble if we grant that the right to property is absolute - if somebody owns on a sufficiently wide scale the basic commodities one needs to survive in the modern world (like fresh water, farming land, employment opportunities), others are born right in the middle of the proverbial desert. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university