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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Date: 
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:37:45 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
one thing. At some point, if the absence of a library were bugging you
out, you'd have to measure the value of staying in a community you have
strong ties to but that has chosen not to have a library against moving.
I suspect you'd be able to make the trade off. • [snip]
What if it costs more than they _have_?
Then they can't have it.

But the point to which I'm replying is that libraries _would_ get built!


I personally would like, very very much, to own a space shuttle. I think
it would be really neat and it would actualise my potential and it would
be more educational than any other thing I could possibly own. But I am
18 billion short. There are no free goods.

Universal access to libraries is something that can obviously benefit
society. As I've seen you say: take that as a given for this argument.
Again, the assertion was that in a pure libertarian society, I _will_ have
universially available schools, libraries, highways, etc. If you can
demonstrate that universal access to spaceships is a net benefit for
society, I'll argue that the libertarian utopia ought to offer those as
well. :)

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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<Fo04xr.MoE@lugnet.com> <slrn87djsf.fag.matt...ia.bu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Not at all. Not all value can be as easily judged as the operating budget of a library. But if your property (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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