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Re: Justice for all.....
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:15:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
> > > > When people are involved, nothing works as well in practice as it
> > > > does in theory. Look at economics. You can do all sorts of nifty
> > > > mathematical extrapolations with supply and demand, but once you
> > > > involve actual people the rules don't work because they introduce
> > > > too much chaos.
> > >
> > > **snip**
> > > I also think this is the problem with Libertarianism (is that a word?) In
> > > Theory it sounds like a really good system, but it falls apart in practice
> >
> > It (in pure form) hasn't been tried in practice.
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> True, but neither has pure Communism, pure Socialism, or pure Democracy, for
> that matter. I'm not convinced that we can meaningfully speculate what a "pure"
> incarnation of any of these systems would be like, except by undertaking
> selective extrapolation of existing systems.
Agreed. I don't think you actually can have a pure anything. But you can have
systems that are more libertarian or less, and more socialist or less, and more
fascist or less, etc.
I claim that the more libertarian you go, the better things work and the more
socialist you go, the worse things work (in the long run, after factoring
transfers/subsidies out).
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| (...) True, but neither has pure Communism, pure Socialism, or pure Democracy, for that matter. I'm not convinced that we can meaningfully speculate what a "pure" incarnation of any of these systems would be like, except by undertaking selective (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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