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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: I became pro-life...and pro-choice...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.165434.23402@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan9.023751.29274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan24.033340.21571@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan24.074055.11945@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:54:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.074055.11945@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.033340.21571@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>Without a law, there is nothing to enforce. In order to get (would-be)
- >>criminals concerned about enforcement, you first have to pass laws; those
- >>same laws you keep insisting are useless.
- >
- >Oh come on, Kevin, lots of tyrants have had their will enforced without
- >benefit of law.
-
- Is that what you prefer? Myself, I'd rather have laws to dictate exactly how
- force will be applied in society. At least that provides SOME measure of
- tyranny-prevention. If you just let force erupt out of control, eventually
- you get tyrants, of various shapes and sizes. Look at Somalia.
-
- I distinguish between "force" and "enforcement", by the way. "Force" is just
- a general term. "Enforcement", on the other hand, implies the use of force
- towards a particular goal. Laws reflect goals for which it is valid to use
- force. Democracies pass laws which reflect their people's ideas of what goals
- are valuable and what aren't. It actually works, Galen. You'd be surprised.
-
- - Kevin
-