Samael wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
Hardly. Property is a means of storing work.
> From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com>
> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
> Date: 10 December 1998 14:40
> Subject: Re: The Education Function
>
> >
> >I'm working on a more comprehensive rebuttal, but first, I want to say
> >that the entire premise of socialism is based on violence directed at
> >the individual. When a government steals money earned by a worker, it
> >is practicing a form of violence.
>
> I dispute that the money is yours in the first place.
>
> There are three quotes that I find very useful:
>
> 1) Property is freedom.
> Capitalist view - Having property means you can support yourself.
>
> 2) Property is theft.
> Communist view - owning anything means you are stealing from everyone - as
>
> 3) Property is impossible.
> Scientific view: 'Property' is just a term applied to objects that you do
> not wish anyone else to take away from you. It doesn't have an intinsic
> meaning.
>
Disprove this statement if you dare and can. I doubt it.
Mike Lorrey