Subject:
|
Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:13:08 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1421 times
|
| |
| |
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
>
> > 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 dollars per person to cross the surrounding territory, airspace, or
> > what-have-you? The dominant nation is no longer the invader, but it still
> > wields crippling power over the subjugated state.
>
> 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?
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 use...
Dave!
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
120 Messages in This Thread: (Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|