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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:06:14 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- References: <1992Dec10.005941.20826@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1gc05sINNq1u@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec12.211457.21469@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec12.211457.21469@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >In article <1gc05sINNq1u@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >>
- >>If fifty-one percent of the population of Canada decided that
- >>anyone with a post-consonant 'h' in their name should be sent
- >>to a concentration camp, would you go?
- >
- >The old Libertarian analogy, based on the idea (clearly stated in
- >Libertarian ideology) that money has the same basic value as Life,
- >Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness (to borrow a phrase from that
- >country to the south of here).
-
- May I mug you, sir?
-
- All taxation, you see, is organized theft. Pure and simple.
- Now, the Libertarian position is that all theft is morally
- wrong. This is purest horse manure; as I explained elsewhere,
- it is often justifiable and necessary.
-
- You raise the example of education - a fine one. Education is
- a public good; public goods cannot be financed by anything
- other than forcible theft. And because my education was
- financed thus I have an obligation to so finance other peoples'.
-
- But an artist whose work I do not buy has not helped me at all;
- why must I be forced to give him what I produce?
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