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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



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  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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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