From: David Lubkin (lubkin@unreasonable.com)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 21:08:16 MDT
On 9/24/00, at 10:28 PM, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/24/00 7:22:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, hal@finney.org
>writes:
>> Democracy is rule by the people, which in practice usually means rule by
>> the majority. In a democratic system, 51% of the people can take property
>> away from 49%. Democratic systems do not need to respect property rights,
>> or to allow free trade. A democracy could have many restrictions which
>> would be incompatible with pure capitalism.
I've been meaning to write a book on libertarianism for kids for some time.
In the shower Friday I finally wrote it out loud, by speaking as though I were
explaining it to my daughter. I'm now racing to get it on paper.
(Does that happen to you? I get my best ideas just as I'm falling asleep,
driving, and in the shower. So I keep clipboards by my bed and in the car,
but there's no great way to record the shower ideas, and they're the richest.)
When it's done, I'd like to get comments from some of you on it, pre-publication.
Stay tuned. You can write to me off-line to declare an especial interest.
One of the chapters is entitled "What's wrong with democracy". The next
chapter talks about how free markets can work better than democracy. To give
credit where it's due, it's basically a rehash of Lenny Bruce.
>Are you suggesting that a government can be a democracy without having any
>protection for the rights of minorities? Does that mean you do not have to
>have respect for a minorities lives or property?? How about their political
>rights? Can you respect their lives without respecting their property? How
>about an artist or writer's right to their work.
Absolutely.
-- David Lubkin.
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