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- From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Markets Only? What Nonsense!
- In-Reply-To: <727072324snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
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- Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:55:34 GMT
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- >DATE: Fri, 15 Jan 93 04:32:04 GMT
- >FROM: Gil Hardwick <gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- [....]
- > you *yet* must come up with a strategy for getting all the
- >people out there doing the damage to go along with all your necessary
- >political processes. What do you do when they break your laws, shoot
- >them?
-
- No, no; a suitable term of imprisonment would probably do the job.
-
- But seriously: that's why we have laws -- to keep people from doing
- things of which the society disapproves. And if people break them, they
- get punished. Is the critique here, in effect, an anarchist one -- that
- laws are per se illegitimate? Just asking.
-
- --Michael Smith
-