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Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:29:01 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:17:03 GMT, Christopher Weeks
> <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:
> 
> > Uh, sorry, I mean they should be put down.  (But not by the state since
> > there shouldn't be a death penalty.)
> 
> Taking this remark out of the post..
> 
> So what you're saying is, someone, not the state, should have the
> right to decide that a) someone is guilty b) that the crime deserves
> death c) that he has the right to do this.
> 
> So essentially, a random person can just decide to kill someone, just
> because they believe the guy to be guilty (note that lynching mobs
> quite often kill persons who are _not_ guilty by any objective
> standard).
> 
> You've all gone bloody insane. Fine, try out you "libertarian"
> society.

As I understand what Larry has been saying, and from my own thinking, I
do not believe that the position held by Christopher is a Libertarian
position (but I may be wrong).

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
 
Frank Filz wrote in message <382AD2AD.1587@minds...ng.com>... (...) Frank, I think you are right. What Christopher is saying sounds a little anarchist or something, but definitely not Libertarian. -- Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming (...) (27 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) OK, it's as voluntary as anything ever is. I don't feel responsible to make things better than they can be. (...) Well, I don't think anyone is harmed - unless I spend so much that I can't buy groceries. So the net benefit of the transactions (...) (27 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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