Re: Patriotism and Citizenship

From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 13:37:00 MDT


Brian D Williams wrote:
>>From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>

>>Heinlein's reasoning of course is that people don't respect
>>things they haven't had to pay dearly for. In "Starship Troopers"
>>you couldn't vote unless you had done a period of Federal Service.
>
>>And wouldn't that be a jolly world? NO, it wouldn't.
>
> For you of course not, you're a socialist, you believe in something
> for nothing and redistribution at gunpoint if necessary.

Aren't *you* the one advocating restricting rights to those
willing to hold the gun and redistribute personally?

-- 
Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com>
"[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels
 respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.


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