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Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:03:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Jasper Janssen wrote:
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> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:55:15 GMT, Christopher Weeks
> > <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:
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> > > 5) Let peaceful people cross borders freely.
> > > OK, I can see otherwise reasonable people disagreeing with this
> > > due to outmoded notions of fealty and sovereignty. I agree with
> > > the LP stance on this issue and am more extreme than this, but
> > > this is the only one of the personal issues that I bet many
> > > folks would disagree with.
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> > Yup. There are very good reasons not to let economic refugees cross
> > into your country freely. Most especially if you are richer than your
> > neighbours.
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> And if you give government assistance to those who are in need. Absent
> that, there is no good reason.
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> --
Yeah, they can starve here just as well as anywhere else. But who buries them?
That costs money and presents health problems if not done.
Bruce
(This wasn't meant seriously, but I suppose it does apply)
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| (...) Right you are. But why were they starving where they were? Were they starving enroute? And why would they starve once they *got* to libertopia, if they wanted to work? (and, since there's no public assistance, why would they want to come to (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Yup. There are very good reasons not to let economic refugees cross into your country freely. Most especially if you are richer than your neighbours. (...) The problem isn't that the market wouldn't provide food. It's that the market would not (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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