Re: Our Responsibility to Those in Need

From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@MSX.UPMC.EDU)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 16:54:55 MDT


From: "Olga Bourlin" <fauxever@sprynet.com>

  Oi, dorogoi moi chelovek !... a gentleman and a scholar! Ya bolshe ne =
mogo govoreet pro eto sevodnya. Bolshoe spasibo.

#### Ya uzhe zabachil po russki govorit - pochti vsio. Ya ponimaiu
nemnozhko.

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Olga:

  Except to say, that if any of you so-called classical liberals =
(sometimes this translates to libertarian - is this correct?) can give =
me your scenario of how you would have solved the segregation problem in =
the South during the 1950s and 1960s (or earlier, dare one hope?), I'll =
eat my ACLU membership card. =20

#### You hit a sore point here - despite my proclivity for free market based
actions, somehow I can't derive any non-coercive way of dealing with
organized, localized, entrenched pockets of arrogant nastiness - as in
racist communities, states, or countries.

For almost anything else I think the good way is the free market way but
here I am stumped.

Can somebody help?

Rafal Smigrodzki MD-PhD
Dept Neurology University of Pittsburgh
smigrodzkir@msx.upmc.edu



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