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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 18:29:20 -0500 From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone (fwd)

At 6:01 PM -0500 on 11/4/98, Jim Choate wrote, from the bowels of my killfile:

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They're bound by economics and nothing else, not even the government cats.

Amen.

Which is why it's a *BAD* idea.

A government is just another economic actor. A very large economic actor with lots of guns and a monopoly on force, but an economic actor nonetheless.

You need to look around, the government has NO monopoly on force.

Reality is not optional.

Absolutely, that's why any free-market/anarchy is doomed to fail. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------