From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 06:51:00 MDT
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>> ### I can't help myself, have to quote this statement from the above
>> article:
>>
>> "people who have been .... oppressed by the lack of government"
>>
>> It's so surreal. Dan, are you reading this? It's not the government
>> that oppresses people, as those dumb anarchos claim, no, it's the
>> absence of government that's oppressive.
>>
>> Rafal
>
> Just to be clear, the whole quote is "people...who have been beat down
> and oppressed by the lack of government services or supportive
> services to meet their needs here. But they've also been oppressed by
> their own minds and their own attitudes."
>
> He didn't say "lack of government", he said "lack of government
> services or supportive services". Supportive services don't have to
> come from the big mean oppressive government.
### Oppression is a sin of commission, not of omission.
Rafal
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