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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 02:53:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John DiRienzo writes:
if there was
a four year old kid on your street with no one, no where to go, that if
there weren't some government agency for you to call and make the problem
disappear, you wouldn't do something about it yourself?  You would, 99.9% of
people would.  So even if it wasn't the child's fault, the child would
survive.  As said earlier, get real.... if you are going to talk to me.

Okay, lets get very real.

<http://pangaea.org/street_children/kids.htm>
<http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/press/lar/111/lar3.html>
<http://www.ddc.com/kidsacks/>
<http://www.letthechildrenlive.org/>
<http://www.concentric.net/~Vitnet/MinM.htm>

There are, according to the UN, around 150 million children on the streets at
present. Or is this reality not the one you like to face, instead embracing the
puesdo-reality of a system that is still at this moment hypothetical.

Life-affirming or not, that many street-children suggests that we can't rely on
the innate goodness of man. Which reality is more comfortable to inhabit?

Richard



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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
I've been out of it for a little while (I've been home sick, and the threading got too complex for me), but here I am back again... (...) One point of note: none of the societies with large numbers of street children are anywhere near Libertarian, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
Richard Franks wrote in message ... (...) of (...) at (...) the (...) rely on (...) Hey man, You don't need to show me that, I have already looked. I try to point out reality to others whenever possible (often to their disdain), and I have shown (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) What experiment? (...) Thats pretty much what I said. there are much better ways to deal with "the problem" (when it is one) than the current ways. If you don't accept that, we don't need to talk to each (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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