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Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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Sat, 1 Jan 2000 23:10:19 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
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> 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.
Nothing of the sort. I want to return to the frontier mentality, the
notion that we can, if we want, be very successful at any number of
different things.
> 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.
Again, hardly. The most frontierlike part of america right now is the
e-space. Vast fortunes are being made by people armed with nothing more
than an idea, some skill, and a LOT of hard work (working on internet
time means working LONG hours). But those people are more specialised
than you or I, even.
> > Rights protection == keeping what you've worked for or were freely
> > given. All rights are property rights.
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> 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).
Reread older posts, I already did.
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