At 02:11 PM 9/5/96 +0000, jonathon wrote:
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Anonymous wrote:
defunded 100%, IMO). Violence begats violence which begats even larger government, don't start us on that road -- leave me in peace.
If I understand you correctly, it is OK for a government to institute violence against the residents of the land it claims dominion over, but it is not acceptable for the inhabitants of that piece of land to respond in self defence.
I think Mr. Anonymous displays a mental crutch that you'll occasionally see: A person who, while he'll not quite admit defending the status quo, criticizes alternatives to it yet doesn't have a solution of his own. He says he wants to be left "in peace," forgetting that most people in the world today are NOT left in peace. The way I see it, the status quo doesn't come "pre-justified": It needs just as much a defense as any other proposal. Its main advantage is that it tends to be more understood that most hypotheticals, because it's been tested. Sadly, people tend to ignore its disadvantages, to to excess familiarity. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, jim bell wrote:
The way I see it, the status quo doesn't come "pre-justified": It needs just as much a defense as any other proposal. Its main advantage is that it tends to be more understood that most hypotheticals, because it's been
More understood, and just more accepted, because alternatives are hard to conceive, and even harder to popularize, without lots of red liquid running in the streets? xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com On second thoughts, let's just terminate with extreme prejudice, each and every individual who has worked in any capacity for any part of any government agency in the us -- regardless of whether it was federal, state or local, and regardless of whether they were president, janitor, or clerk. All people in the employ of government agencies are death-dealers.
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