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Subject:	Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 1 Jan 2000 23:10:19 GMT
Reply-To:	lpieniazek@novera.&ihatespam&com
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Jasper Janssen wrote: > > 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. > > 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. -- Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar - - - Web Application Integration! http://www.novera.com fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet. NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)

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		Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
(...) "E-space" (Now _there's_ a horrible term if I ever heard one. Almost as bad as "Information Superhighway"), however, is hardly frontier-like. (...) Gimme some search terms or general dates to work with. You're too prolific a poster (even when (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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