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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:02:28 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ...
> Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I used to have this opinion. My feeling now is that anything worthwhile • that
> > the government does in the realm of social programs, WILL be provided in
> > some fashion in a Liberatopia. I know right now people do chose which town
> > to live in based on the schools, libraries, and museums that town has. • That
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> A community I lived in for a while didn't have access to a public library,
> because the majority (but not an overwhelming majority -- something like
> 60%) of the people who lived there didn't want to pay the few cents in • taxes
> to join the regional library program. And it wasn't because they were
> building a privately-held public library of their own.
So move to a community which does have a library.
> I would submit that universal education and access to libraries (whether or
> not a right) are good things. I'm not convinced that this would happen in a
> purely free capitalist system.
If it's worth the cost, it will happen. If it isn't worth the cost, then it
isn't worth the cost. Another thought, I think many of the longer existing
public libraries were actually established with a lot of donated money.
Actually, from my father's perspective, there are a bunch of commercial
reading rooms. He spends time in various bookstores just reading. I have to
admit that I find this somewhat distasteful, and if too many people did it,
bookstores would start shrink wrapping all the books.
Frank
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| (...) The house I lived in there was built by my dad on property given my parents by my grandparents. I grew up there and have lots of important memories of it. Many people are attached to where they live by stronger things than that; should they (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) A community I lived in for a while didn't have access to a public library, because the majority (but not an overwhelming majority -- something like 60%) of the people who lived there didn't want to pay the few cents in taxes to join the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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