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Re: Voluntary, private discrimination (Was: Disparicies in Sentencing)
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Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:53:44 GMT
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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.
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> 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
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