This is why a free society is evil.

[petro]

>On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Tim May wrote:
>
>>  -- If an employee doesn't like the calendar that another employee has
>>  on his desk, she can talk to others in the company. Maybe they'll
>>  have it removed. But she CANNOT use the courts to intervene in a
>>  matter of how the company's owners deal with their property.
>
>Her civil liberties aren't the employers property. Further, the PRIVILIGE
>of running a business does not have greater importance than freedom of
>speech and such.

	"Privilige (sic) of running a business"?

	Huh?

	Do you have the "Privilege" of being allowed to work?

	To say running a business is a "privilege" is to say that 
every action, everything that a person does besides breathing is a 
privilege.

	Who can bestow that privilege?

	Asinine.

>
>Simply having a desire to run a company does not justify using other
>people as property nor dictating behaviours that don't DIRECTLY effect the

	Unless you are chaining people to their desks, posting armed 
guards to prevent them from leaving, or using the law to prevent them 
from quiting and finding another job, you aren't treating them as 
property.

	You are treating them as adults, as independent people who 
can make up their own minds as to where and under what conditions 
they are willing to work.

>process of making profit. Democratic theory demands that unless the
>calendar can be demonstrably infringing a civil liberty it shouldn't be an
>issue. Freedom until you infringe anothers.
>
>The fundamental flaw with Libertarianism is it's myopic focus on economic
>efficiency. It's just another form of oppression via another face of
>socialism.

	Utter nonsense. But then the further the subject strays from 
programming and computers, the more that is common from you.

>As to money being the primary goal of society and it having some ability
>to guarantee anything approaching 'justice',
>
>"Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial
>nations."

	Money, or rather the trade of goods and services *is* the 
morality of a society.

	Or to put it a little better, Money is the INDICATOR of the 
morality of a culture. It tells you what they value, what they want 
and what they think important.
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