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-- Questions for Discussion Groups --
1. What is important to your group?
Truth and honesty.
3. What does your group want not to happen with the NII?
For it to de facto preempt honest alternatives. I'm afraid that the NII will be funded in part by taxation. An honest person cannot in good conscience willfully accept services funded by taxation when he has a reasonable alternative. The NII threatens the viability of honest alternatives. The reason is that even an honest person will find it hard to justify paying more for access to a user-funded network when a cheaper alternative such as NII is available because it is sustained by expropriating the fruit of the toil of unconsenting others. Some of us would prefer that relations among people be by mutual consent or not at all. Government programs, by contrast, imply imposition by the politically victorious upon all others.
5. What would you be able to do with the NII, that you would not otherwise, if you did not have to worry about the cost of access?
One can _not_ of course not worry about the cost. The people who install and maintain the system have to eat, too. The pertinent question is whether that money is given freely in exchange for service rendered, or is expropriated from another without his consent through taxation. An honest user of the system suffers ongoing distress to know that he benefits only because of another's oppression. The NII should not come to be. The ``N'' in NII stands for ``National''. Nations are abominations, functioning as they do to supplant personal choice with collective dictate. John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLZZwxcDhz44ugybJAQEbTwQAgCHVdhmdC3zyQWRKOhNLTFzM8AFH29re jOdOmnIKkGiJWzjPGLb/x4cagv+tS56OgfpSMmBet9xsm9f7Yf3gGpGgPVgiYr2n pseH5x7ON0a6u0YVYZX8SIPyOjUUEiDBwhAfOOALJ2fWWMI0hYhREiAQuNS1Ag8T /oYQtUFf274= =QDwY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----