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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:30:43 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ...
> John DiRienzo <ig88888888@stlnet.com> wrote:
> > being evil" in the Bible).
> > It becomes very difficult, when arguing about Libertarianism, to • convince
> > people that taking away their opportunities to be evil (by making each
> > individual responsible and accountable) could really work to prevent all
> > kinds of wrong in the world. Further, taking away those opportunities
>
> I'm going to take a LOT of convincing on this one. I don't see _how_
> Libertarianism is going to hold corporations accountable at all. In today's
> society, huge companies have very little accountability to me at all, and
> they'd have even less in a libertarian utopia. Yet what they do affects me,
> even if I boycott them completely. (Which is increasingly difficult given
> the tendency of all companies to merge.)
Simple, don't hold corporations accountable, but human beings. As it is
now, corporations are running amuck, because the people who run them are
able to hide. Take away their "immunity" and see how they clean up their
act.
> Part of the government's role is to keep corporations from stomping all
> over people. (It may not always do a great job of that, and it may do a • lot
> of other things poorly. But at least there's a framework there!)
It does a piss poor job of that, I would say. It all but helps them every
step of the way. In the paragraph above, you were complaining about it.
Make up your mind. The frame work you mentioned - what are you talking
about?
> > non-Christians need to be convinced in another way, since their arguments
> > are different. There arguments are usually stronger, or at least to me
> > less penetrable, as they, in many cases, have given these things more
> > thought, and have somehow come to the wrong conclusion with many more
> > inaccurate, yet hard to argue, premises. I can only describe that as a
> > stronger web of disenchantment. Maybe I am the one who is mixed up, but I
> > am resolute, nonetheless.
>
> Oh my. I'm not sure if I should be offended, or what.
Doesn't matter to me.
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Have fun!
John
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