CDR: Re: Re: Shunning, lesbians and liberty

[James A.. Donald]

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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.

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