On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Tim May wrote:
-- If an employee doesn't like the calendar that another employee has on his desk, she can talk to others in the company. Maybe they'll have it removed. But she CANNOT use the courts to intervene in a matter of how the company's owners deal with their property.
Her civil liberties aren't the employers property. Further, the PRIVILIGE of running a business does not have greater importance than freedom of speech and such. Simply having a desire to run a company does not justify using other people as property nor dictating behaviours that don't DIRECTLY effect the process of making profit. Democratic theory demands that unless the calendar can be demonstrably infringing a civil liberty it shouldn't be an issue. Freedom until you infringe anothers. The fundamental flaw with Libertarianism is it's myopic focus on economic efficiency. It's just another form of oppression via another face of socialism. Jefferson warned us about these sorts of people, like Tim and Declan, many years ago. "The English would not lose the sale of a bale of furs for the freedom of the whole world." And he also had a rebutt to Tim's oft claimed right to not respect others rights. "A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society." or, "There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured him." As to the often claimed that the best (ie most intelligent) are most suited to govern society, "Whatever be the degree of talent it is no measure of right; because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others." As to money being the primary goal of society and it having some ability to guarantee anything approaching 'justice', "Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations." ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------