CDR: RE: Re: Shunning, lesbians and liberty

[Trei, Peter]

> James A.. Donald[SMTP:jamesd at echeque.com] wrote: 
> At 12:30 PM 9/28/2000 +0300, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
>  > Oh but it is quite possible to put people in similar trouble if we
>  > grant that the right to property is absolute - if somebody owns on a
>  > sufficiently wide scale the basic commodities one needs to survive
>  > in the modern world (like fresh water, farming land, employment
>  > opportunities), others are born right in the middle of the
>  > proverbial desert.
> 
> But in a free market this never happens.  It only happens when the 
> government intervenes.  Thus, for example, we only see homelessness where 
> there is rent control, we only see hunger where there is rationing and 
> collectivized farming, and so on and so forth.
> 
>      --digsig
>           James A. Donald
> 
I haven't been following this debate closely, so I don't know which side
you're on, Jim, but I assume (hope!) that you are merely being sarcastic.

Peter Trei