charity at the point of a gun (Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone) (fwd)

Jim Choate ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Tue Nov 10 18:09:37 PST 1998



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> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:28:11 -0700 (MST)
> From: Jim Burnes <jvb at ssds.com>
> Subject: Re: charity at the point of a gun (Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone) (fwd)

> (1) Social transfer payments at the point of a gun are involuntary
> compassion.
> 
> (2) Involutary compassion is usually called rape.

No, thats' lust not compassion. Involuntary lust is called rape.

> Combine this with the US Govt defining a sex life as a "right"
> (witness free Viagra) and you come up with some pretty 
> chilling scenarios.
> 
> (do people have the "right" to a sex partner?)

Read the 9th Amendment. I'd say so.

> Whats to stop rape of selected human beings by agents of
> the federal government?  (ok, maybe thats going a little
> too far

The 4th Amendment among others.


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