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- From: runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan)
- Subject: Re: The socialist/fascist claptrap item #1: the "Social Contract"
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:48:52 GMT
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- Phil Ronzone (phil@netcom.com) wrote:
- >Hey George, did you sign your "Social Contract"? Nope, me neither. Hey,
- >how about you Tony? Did you? yeah, I've never seen this "Social Contract"
- >ion any kind of writing either, much less signed one.
-
- Nope, you didn't sign any piece of paper, nor did you explicitly agree
- to any form of contract. And yet you continue to use roads, electricity,
- and water that the government provides you. It is strange that those
- very people who most often repudiate the analogy of the social contract
- do so while using the very advantages that their society gives them.
-
- >What actually happens of course is that some set of people gain enough
- >control of the means of coercion to force another set or sets of people
- >to hand over their property at gunpoint for the first set to dispose of.
-
- And while you make fun of the analogy of Social Contract by asking for
- a piece of paper, allow me to ask for a picture of the gun pointing at
- you. :-)
-
- Mark Runyan
-