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Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:

Your property.

Fair enough, why not me, I'm as good an example as any, and better than
most. Posit for the sake of this flippant example that I am not
charitable (that is, that I did not invite these refugees onto my land,
and did not grant them safe passage across it).

You seem to be taking this as a personal insult, Larry.  What's with this
perjorative labeling?  If it's flippant, it isn't really worthy of response.
If it isn't, then aren't you just taking a cheap shot?  I provided additional
scenarios that I think would pass the non-flippant standard, but you seem to
have excised them.


They flopped over dead there by sheer random chance (perhaps it
was a simple heart attack).  So you are saying they become your personal
liablity?

Yes, they are my personal liability.

Okay.  Now, just get the electorate to agree to that.



In your example that "sheer random chance" is an accident. Accidents
happen. A tree could have been struck by lightning and no one was to
blame, yet because it happened on my property, I'm stuck with the
cleanup. Heck, that tree might have blown in from somewhere totally
unidentifiable during a hurricane and even if it wasn't my tree to start
with, I'm still stuck. That's life... and that's what insurance is for.
You can't avoid accidents completely, you can only prepare for them.
Failure to prepare is no excuse and no claim on the property of others.

But we did prepare: we collectively agreed to fund a county coroner.  We even
agreed to levee taxes to pay for it.



Now, if there was a pattern here and I was having to file burial claims
3 times a month, you can be sure I'd be trying to figure out why these
trespassers were always dying on MY property and how it was that they
seemed to so easily gain admittance and trying to determine if there was
someone (with some assets) who was aiding and abetting this trespassing
that I could sue or have prosecuted.

People who fall dead on your property are "trespassers"?  How dare they!
Actually, they were dragged there by your non-prepared neighbor, but you can't
prove it.  And believe me, that's exactly what would happen.


But this is a flippant example so we're OK. More questions?

I'm sure you are doing the Libertarian party scads of good.  Here's some more
rope.  :-)

Bruce



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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) even (...) Yep, and we collectively agreed that the more successful people would do the major part in paying these taxes. Against their will (and rights) of course. (...) can't (...) People who are on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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