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- From: XA.U20@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: The socialist/fascist claptrap item #1: the 'Social Contract'
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:25:02 -0800
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- In article <C1JBDH.7Ky@cup.hp.com>,
- runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan) writes:
- >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.
-
- How can you claim that continuing to use services for which you pay
- q usage fee (or taxes) and over which the government claims a
- monopoly on providing the service implys any acceptance of the
- social contract? If a private company controlled all the jobs and
- services in a town, and outlawed anyone else from coming in to
- compete with them, would you say that people who work for the
- company have accepted the right of the company to use such tactics?
-
- >>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. :-)
-
- If you violate the social contract eventually a man in a uniform
- will arrive on your doorstep to enforce that contract. He will be
- wearing a firearmn and empowered by those who sanction the contract
- to use it on you if you contine to resist. This is not an issue to
- joke over. Your smiley is not appropriate.
-
- >Mark Runyan
-
- /June
-