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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Date: 13 Dec 1992 08:40:17 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- References: <1992Dec12.211457.21469@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1gdnomINN3or@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec13.042309.25048@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec13.042309.25048@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >In article <1gdnomINN3or@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >>
- >>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'.
- >
- >Then our "disagreement" may come down to defining education. In brief,
- >education isn't restricted to the schools - education comes in many
- >forms, including reasonable access to a number of artistic voices
- >(and not just those that happen to be profitable this week).
-
- The difference is that presumably you are old enough now to pay
- for your own artistic voices, and do not have to stick a gun in
- the back of poor Great-Aunt Mildred, who has not read anything
- but TV Guide since 1974 and cannot tell artistic voices from
- the mating calls of plumbing.
-
- Do not automatically assume that you are superior to old bag
- Mildred and thus have a right to take her money; even were the
- former true the latter is not, I think, the sort of precedent
- you want to be setting.
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