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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Government meddling...
- Message-ID: <51752@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 18:53:24 GMT
- References: <2003@usna.NAVY.MIL>
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- In article <2003@usna.NAVY.MIL> potter@attila.usna.navy.mil (Mr. Jeff Potter (CADIG STAFF)) writes:
- >
- > In response to Mr. Romano....
- >
- > The Libertarians have never claimed that greed, corruption or deceipt
- > will magically cease to exist. These are human flaws that result from
- > culture and human nature. Having government pass laws to protect people
- > has never solved anything either. Have prostitution laws ended solicitation?
- > Have anti-drug laws ended marijuana use? Have anti-fraud laws ended fraud?
- > The consumer must always be aware and cautious that is a fact of life. The
- > problem is the more power the government is given to 'protect' me the more
- > power government has over all aspects of my life. I was never given a choice
- > as to whether I approve of drug use, or prostitution. Yet my taxes pay to
- > 'protect' me from these things.
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- This is so very shallow and specious that it deserves an award.
- Following libertarian deductive rule #1 namely
- Exists x. P(x) -> forall x. P(x)
- you prove that the absence of total protection for consumers
- via regulation implies that regulation offers no protection.
- Then, following libertarian deductive rule #1 again
- you prove that the existence of some pernicious forms of government
- regulation proves that all forms of government regulation are
- pernicious.
- > Government forces are strictly reactionary. If someone breaks into my home
- > and murders my wife - the police can only react after my wife is dead! Now
-
- Complete hogwash. Take a simple example of popular regulation of
- the marketplace: government inspection of retailers weights and
- measures. Clearly, random inspection of scales is not "reactive"
- or intrusive.
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- > what help is that? It is my responsibilty to protect myself and family
- > before the fact, perhaps preventing a murder. The government law against
- > murder does not protect me! Some one is jailed but my wife would still be
- > dead! Government intervention is coercive and solves nothing!
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- Geez. I feel better knowing that Jeff Damer and Chuck Manson are
- in jail, must be my leninst politics.
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