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Re: Voluntary, private discrimination (Was: Disparicies in Sentencing)
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"Moz (Chris Moseley)" wrote:


> IMO anything in the public side *must* be nondiscriminatory.

Taxes are pretty public.  Should they be nondiscriminatory?

> > Crimes are crimes and there is no justification for any of them and no
> > reason to be sparing in the punishment for any of the.
> 
> I assume this is hyperbole rather than rationale. Or should you be hung for
> the crime of ... speeding?

Arguably, speeding isn't a crime since there is no victim to be pointed to.

> Yes. There is a chilling effect present in hate crimes that does not exist
> in most other crimes. Debatably things like rape could be hate crimes or
> not, since most rapists select victims by at least gender, if not also
> other characteristics.

Theft is discriminatory agains those who have.  Oooh...a new hate crime.

> Who builds the roads, Larry?

The same people who build them now, they'd just build them for a
volluntary association of citizens, or bankers, or Bill Gates instead.

> Who stops foreign businesses using subsidies
> from their governments to destroy local industries?

Educated consumers?

> Where does government
> purchase its requirements, if it may not put money in the pockets of
> business?

That's true.  The government, even in Libertopia, would have to buy
goods and services.

> You missed my question. If the govt is not allowed to do X, are they
> allowed to hire someone else to do it?

No.  Nor even incent through taxation practices.

> Can I buy illegal
> weapons because it's for a good cause?

In the US there is no such thing.  But the thugs will bother (kill) you
over it if you buy the wrong ones.


--Chris



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
 
Please, people, maybe I don't catch this stuff, but paraphrasing and hinting on a subject where some people have no clue, I think you better state, clearly, what you are talking about. Man, it is like trying to dissect what Bill Clinton is lying (...) (27 years ago, 7-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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