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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 19:27:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
Hmm. Opportunity was closer to equal then than it is now, but it still wasn't
entirely equal. But I'll conceed the point. ;)
> > > 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).
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> Rights protection == keeping what you've worked for or were freely
> given. All rights are property rights.
Then we're of the same mind here. I'll try and remember that next time I
flare up at some LMF. :)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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