From: root (root@kal-el.netropolis.org)
Date: Wed Jul 22 1998 - 06:31:49 MDT
Daniel Fabulich <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> writes:
> Stealing is definitely profitable, and to the extent that it is (and no
> further) egoism demands that we steal.
Bull shit. Are you at the philosophy department at Yale?
> In this example, suppose that you were enslaving your victim. Sure,
> you'll never have the opportunity to trade freely with your victim again,
> but if you're doing it right, you're making much more off of this person
> by enslaving them than you ever could have by trading freely. The pie
Hah! Shows how much you know. What if that person you enslaved was
Thomas Edison, or James Watt, or Galileo, or John Galt? There is no
way you can put a limit on a free man's value to you. Even a SINGLE
free man. You must be a philosophy PROFESSOR at Yale!
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