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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 01:32:10 -0500 From: Michael Hohensee <mah248@nyu.edu> Subject: Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote:

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So what are saying...that because any government ever happened to abuse its citizens in a particular way is justification to do away with all government?

No, it's because *all* governments abuse their citizens.

People abuse people, it's why anarcho-anything won't work. Quit confusing human nature with political systems. Democracy recognizes that individuals are abused, and that they are wont to accept that abuse until it becomes truly excessive (which our country isn't by a long shot). It's the reason the individual is given a vote and civil liberties. If you seriously think you're going to pass a set of laws ( or by extension throw the ones we have out) and the world will be a better place then you are one confused puppy. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------