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Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:08:43 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@nospamNOVERA.COM
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James Brown wrote:
> Lar said:
> > 2. People are lazy because they are *enabled* to be lazy. There weren't
> > very many lazy people on the american frontier 100 years ago.
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> Biased test sample. 100 years ago, there were lots of lazy people who chose to
> stay where they were instead of going to the american frontier.
OK, change that to ANYwhere in America or Canada.
But yes, it's biased. That's the point! That's the society I want to
see us return toward, a society in which everyone knows that if they
work hard and are clever, they've got just as much chance as the next
guy of getting rich, and if they don't want to work, they are going to
starve.
> > It'll take time to shake off 60+ years of bad habits but it's doable. We have
> > to break the "entitlement mentality". People aren't entitled to anything,
> > really, other than rights protection.
>
> Hmm. I think I'm entitled to anything I work for, and anything I'm given -
> assuming the giver worked for it (or that it was worked for somewhere back
> along the giving chain).
Rights protection == keeping what you've worked for or were freely
given. All rights are property rights.
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