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Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 8 Jul 1999 02:14:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Ed Jones wrote:
> You're stretching here, you know. This notion that you paid in advance
> for food stamps and therefore are entitled to get them kind of runs
> counter to the notion that the needy deserve help whether they paid for
> it or not. You can't have it both ways. You do know that, right?
Actually, you can, and it was the intent of the original program - to assist
those with no income and to assist those who are underemployeed.
[snip]
> But that implies he would have a choice. He doesn't. He has to pay
> taxes, whether he later collects food stamps or not. So, still speaking
> utilitarianly, it's rather specious to say he's engaging in any sort of
> specific transaction for these stamps. I go back to what I said umpteen
> appends/posts ago, stop the shell games, stop justifying robbing one
> person because you claim you're going to help him later, maybe.
Well, actually, he has to pay unemployment insurance (which is part of his
taxes).
> Your argument is analogous to a mugger asking me after he robs me
> whether I'd rather he spent my money on whiskey or whores, and somehow
> feeling that means he didn't actually rob me. (2)
Ya lost me with that analogy.
> > Again, to bad we couldn't have gotten to your parents in time.
>
> Really, Ed, twice in one post with the same cheap shot? You can do
> better.
Weeks said: "I'm too ignorant to come back with something appropriately
flippant". I gave him examples of flippance.
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> PS, it's TOO, not TO. Only the lower orders make grammatical misteaks.
> :-) Even t7pos.
Hey, 7 typos for me is incredible - I type 60 words a minute with 45 errors.
:') What, you did't read my request to Todd for spell a spell checker for
LUGNET?
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