From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 06:18:59 MST
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From: Darin Sunley <umsunley@cc.umanitoba.ca>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 December 1998 13:15
Subject: Re: Re: The Education Function
>The only hole in this, of course, is the lack of ability in most countries
for a citizen to "opt out" of government services. My brother feels that
allowing opting out would be a bad idea. I think I agree, at least for
certain category B services that are both very important and whose utility
decreases as the amount of buy-in decreases.
For instance, the army. It's a tad hard to protect no 7 smith street from
nuclear weapons without protecting no 9 as well (even iof no 7 wants to pay
for it and no 9 doesn't).
I hope that people will note that not _everyone_ on there is a pure
idealistic libertarian and that there is spectrum of people (although
tending strongly to the neophilic,intelligent, educated, imaginative, etc.).
Samael
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