From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Tue Sep 30 1997 - 17:43:49 MDT
Guru George wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:45:41 -0400
> Remi Sussan <sremi@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> >Damien Sullivan wrote :
> >
> >>This, of course, begs the question. The anarcho-(socialist,
> >>syndicalist, communist) claim is that property, such as owning a car
> >>which isn't used 90% of the time, or land you've never even visited when
> >>there are landless peasants starving in megacity slums, is theft and
> >>coercion. So they would say "the 'right' wouldn't survive without
> >>utilizing coercion (oxymoron!), or adapting socialist techniques."
> >
> >Exactly. Every act of privatization begins by an enclosure act ("this is
> >mine: I will kill anybody who enter here") which is an act of cercion.
>
> Try a change of metaphor and see how it tickles your intuition buds:
> you're shipwrecked, starving hungry, walking along a beach. You see a
> woman roasting a pig. Are you justified in just grabbing the pig
> because her roasting of the pig was an "act of enclosure", and therefore
> a dastardly initiation of coercion?
>
Because she did not first seek you out, ask for your opinion, listen to
your whining about your feelings, file an environmental impact statement
in triplicate with at least a half a dozen palm trees, and try to reach
a consensus with you about the best way to hunt, kill (assuming you
agree that it is right, in your opinion, to kill the pig), and cook the
pig, then you obviously know much better than her how to eat the pig,
therefore you deseve the pig much more than she does. She is obviously
being unfair about it.
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