Retribution not enough

[Jim Choate]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Steve Furlong wrote:

> Then let them. A self-sufficient subsistence farmer won't be bothered by
> the trade his neighbors are carrying out. [1] His farm can be a
> neolithic bubble as the world progresses.

Bullshit, just wait until the first drought.

No man is an island, and no chunk of an ecosystem can be removed from that
around it. Your 'self-sufficiency' is a logical fantasy.


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