From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 08:34:47 MST
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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
in a natural state nothing is owned by anyone.
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.
Samael
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