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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 97 01:07:15 -0400 Subject: Re: Comdemnation of 'The Sovereign Individual'...

You sense of "morality" does not give you the right to steal from me to support it. In a free society you are more then welcome to spend as much

First it isn't morality in the sense of personal decisions of right and wrong but rather a question of professional ethics akin to a doctor or engineer. It is basic questions about the limits and responsibilities involved in specific activities. Your 'free society' is a euphamism for anarchy. You are promoting a system where all activity is voluntary. In such a system nothing higher than unshaven naked peole with a rock and the rabbit they just killed exists. There is no motivation in such an environment to build higher infrastructures because there is no mechanism to provide environmental stability. In such a system individuals don't have time to do anything but protect what they have and take as much of their neighbors environ as possible. They don't have time for anything else, if they go off and spend 8 hours building that nice pretty public road for that new auto plant their neighbors take what they have and tomorrow they discover they don't have time for that public road after all. You might say, well let your wife and kids watch it. To that I say, isn't that the same as letting elected officials build a infrastructure - there is an implied taxation taking place. Furthermore you have about the same amount of security in both systems - I doubt you would be brash enough to propose that all husbands can trust all wives and kids.

you want on the children of others. You *DO NOT* have the right to spend my money on them. That is a decision that I and I alone have the right to make.

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