Voluntary Mandatory Self-Ratings and Limits on Speech

[Jim Choate]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:10:18PM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> > True. Yet harm gives you cause for Common Law action, no?
> 
> No. If I start a bakery that competes with yours and takes customers
> from yours, I have "harmed" you. Yet this is something that society
> encourages.

No, no 'harm' occurs in that situation. Nothing that was 'yours' was
damaged or othewise manipulated without your consent. Those potential
customers decision to shop at your store or another isn't 'yours'.

Your desires and expectations weren't fulfilled by the expectations of
the market or your approach to using it. However, you have no reason to
expect those people to have an obligation to do business with you.

Typical logical schism in C-A-C-L thinking, the 'individual' is everything
and the 'group' is nothing. Not putting 2+2 that the 'group' is nothing
but the collective actions of the individual. This is not the sort of 
'individualism' that Hayek and other free market proponents are refering
too. In a very real sense it's mis-representation.


 --
    ____________________________________________________________________

            natsugusa ya...tsuwamonodomo ga...yume no ato
            summer grass...those mighty warriors'...dream-tracks

                                            Matsuo Basho

       The Armadillo Group       ,::////;::-.          James Choate
       Austin, Tx               /:'///// ``::>/|/      ravage at ssz.com
       www.ssz.com            .',  ||||    `/( e\      512-451-7087
                           -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'-
    --------------------------------------------------------------------