Subject:
|
Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:52:18 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2597 times
|
| |
| |
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> <Foyq1t.BEt@lugnet.com> <FoysHv.tu@lugnet.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
>
> > All true. All undisputed. Too bad ya can't prove it. :-)
>
> Mostly, I just can't FOLLOW it.
>
> > Alright. I made up the toll walkway, but I figured that in a Libertarian
> > society you had to have some way of getting about not provided by a centralized
> > tax-driven body.
>
> Yes. Toll walkways may well exist. And, property owners may choose to
> provide free walkways as well, either because they find strollers
> aesthetically pleasing, or because they want to give access to their
> stores, or because the value of that walkway is low enough to make it
> uneconomical to collect tolls, or because the property association
> decided to fund the walkway collectively (as condos now do to pay for
> sidewalks or common area driveways) or any of a number of other reasons.
>
> But I'm not sure what point you're making here. Were you looking for
> someone to claim that toll walkways would not exist? Not me! Is the toll
> germane to the example? Please elaborate.
Why in the world are you running on about it? I don't understand. It was just
the shortest-to-explain-example that the guy was walking on some public area.
Mountain out of a molehill.
>
> Note that if one pays a toll for a toll walkway, one is bound by the
> terms and conditions the walkway owner imposes, as is the walkway owner.
> If one voluntarily uses a free walkway, one again is bound by terms and
> conditions. If one feels one is not bound, then one is trespassing and
> subject to ejection.
Mountain. Molehill.
>
> I'd have a tendency to presume that a reasonable condition might be that
> if I happen to die on your walkway after paying the toll I can expect
> that your workers will collect my body and present it to my next of kin,
> if any, for proper disposal.
I can't follow this at all. The body is over there on
your/Frank's/whomever-I'm-talking-to's lawn. Not on the
tollway/walkway/association's-way/whomever's-way.
Bruce
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: stuff (was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
|
| <Foyq1t.BEt@lugnet.com> <FoysHv.tu@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Mostly, I just can't FOLLOW it. (...) Yes. Toll walkways may well exist. And, property owners may choose to provide free (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
473 Messages in This Thread: (Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|