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Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:02:36 GMT
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On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:08:43 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
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> James Brown wrote:
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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.
> 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.
So the american frontier is what you want to return to? I've got news
for you: That also requires returning to the technological and
productivity levels of then.
The reason those two are so much higher now than they were then is
_specialisation_. A libertarian society would just about require
everyone to be a homo universalis.
> Rights protection == keeping what you've worked for or were freely
> given. All rights are property rights.
So that's why you like the days of the colony so much. You don't care
about the right to free speech, or the right to equal treatment, and
the like. (And if you can convincingly reduce _those_ to property
rights, that'll be quite a feat).
Jasper
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