From: Brian Phillips (deepbluehalo@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat May 11 2002 - 07:30:16 MDT
<<Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:16:09 +0100
From: "Edmund Grech" <edmund@arclightentertainment.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Accepting government money [was: Re: IT boot camp...]
> Since ALL universities in the country
> were state funded (this was England in the 1980s) my choice was
> state-funded or nothing. Since my ethical view was ethical egoist, I
didn't
> believe I had to forego my education. What I did was to relentlessly and
> publicly speak out against state education and in favor of privatizing
> education.
You'll be happy to hear that by the time I or anyone else in Britain taking
a four year course leave university we will have a £12,000 loan to pay off.
This bud's for you Mr. I want to pay man 8-))
Edmund>>
This is an interesting notion. I would be interested in hearing what the
list exo-libertarians think of career military service.
How is this sort of federal government work ethically different than
being a public works sponge (or is it basically the same?)?
For instance... I could get the service to pay for all my postgrad
training, but the ethics are questionable.
For instance.
Medicine, as a profession, may not be freely practiced in this country,
lest you be fined (robbed) and imprisoned (kidnapped) for infringing
on the legislatively condoned monopoly held by the Physician's Guild (AMA).
It is essentially impossible to gain the license to practice unless you
1. Graduate from an accredited medical school (which gets lots of gov.
money)
2. Serve post-grad training in a program funded by Medicare (gov money).
3. Pay The high cost of medical school (100K+ US$) which is a direct
result of
the AMA monopoly.
Under the circumstances.. is it the lessor of the two evils to let the fed
pay for one's training directly (and effectively "rob" the taxed populace
to a lesser degree) and not have any loans?
Arguably serving in the armed forces does some good, in a libertarian
sense, since it preserves a democracy which has a greater possibility
of becoming a free-er society that a subject state of a foreign power.
thoughts?
Brian
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