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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:51:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Miller writes:
John DiRienzo <ig88888888@stlnet.com> wrote:
town on that.  In the Libertopia, its not the corporations' "responsibility"
to fund education, but the peoples' (such as parents of children).  Some

What happens when you have bad parents? (Such things happen. Especially if
we're allowing companies to sell crack....) Whose responsibility is it then?
Or do those kids just not get an education? How're they supposed to end up
as good parents themselves, then? It seems like this leads to some sort of
caste system!

  Not at all! ;-)
   It simply guarantees that those who have money, be they individuals or
corporations, will continute to have money and the best that it can buy, from
education to property (which could thereupon be protected by these nebulous
"property rights").  And why shouldn't they?  Since they have money and fiscal
power, naturally we can rely on them to behave responsibly and not to take
unfair advantage of it!

     Dave!


Why shouldn't we expect that, given the chance, every corporation and wealthy
individual will work very hard to ensure that no one else can usurp



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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
Dave Schuler wrote in message ... (...) "responsibility" (...) then? (...) from (...) fiscal (...) wealthy (...) Because man. There would be other rich people, who make money off of poorer people by suing the hell out of rich people or corporations (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
(...) See my reasoning as to "libertarian = feudal" now? Jasper (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) What happens when you have bad parents? (Such things happen. Especially if we're allowing companies to sell crack....) Whose responsibility is it then? Or do those kids just not get an education? How're they supposed to end up as good parents (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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