 | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | These are LMF answers, mind you... not mine, which are rather muddier (...) Armed conflict happens, presumably. (...) The citizens of the invaded country. As always, just as if they were considering secession peacefully. (...) The Second Amendment (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Dave Schuler
| | | | | (...) That's fine with me--I'm interested in examining the philosophy itself, (...) Okay, I think that makes some sense. But couldn't the dominant nation simply impose upon the seceeding nation a fee of, say, a billion dollars per person to effect (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | (...) In advance? Would you sign up for that? Or do you mean after the fact against people who were in already? I would tend to think (and I'm guessing here) that every new law (except basic common law, you can't dodge the prohibition against (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Dave Schuler
| | | | | (...) Well, maybe this is a better hypothetical: What if the dominant nation (accepting, though, that the minarchist idea kind of trumps this) simply buys all territory surrounding the smaller nation and then charges the smaller nation a billion (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Don Heyse
| | | | | | (...) Hey, you know, I always (well, not really always) wondered why they don't do that with those "Native American" casinos you see popping up all over the place these days. Apparently they're able to fight that sort of thing off. (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | (...) Honestly, I don't know the answer to that one off hand. What do you suggest? Armored VTOL aircraft or spaceships? Or maybe just never leaving? (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Dave Schuler
| | | | | | (...) Not sure--maybe they could go at night, when no one's watching. Your other post suggesting "information" seems a good compromise, unless the surrounding nation can somehow claim the airwaves as its own property and thereby charge for their (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed... —Scott Arthur
| | | | | (...) Sounds a bit like Cuba. ;) Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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