CDR: Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Fri Sep 8 20:33:29 PDT 2000


At 05:59 PM 9/8/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
>On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Honig wrote:
>> Ultimately law is backed by violence.
>> 
>
>And therefore it is bad....yadda, yadda, yadda
>
>Bullshit. That is such a general statement as to be worthless.
>
>The 'law' stems from the individual right to self-defence. Law is backed
>by violence because that is what is is about.

So this affects the morality/legitimacy of a so-called 'non-governmental'
tax-collection agency how? 

>To then try to portray this as the stem of human abuse of same is simply
>abusive to the reader. 

To imagine that paying GEMA is voluntary is delusional.

<snip>

>Your thesis is self-referential, inconsequential, and still born.

So you don't like it then? 








  









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