From: Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 12 1998 - 20:15:28 MST
From: EvMick@aol.com
Date sent: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:13:06 EST
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: The Education Function
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> In a message dated 12/12/98 4:42:00 PM Central Standard Time,
> jdees0@students.uwf.edu writes:
>
> > What about as an instrument for preserving our environment (which
> > the private sector has shamelessly trashed), a global problem not
> > amenable to individual or corporate solutions, and guaranteeing
> > basic human righrs for its citizens (which other citizens, and
> > corporations, are, sadly, only too willing to abrogate, violate and/or
> > ignore)?
> >
> >
> I beleive that if you check into it you'll find that you are incorrect in this
> assumption. Generally speaking private property is taken care of by it's
> owners better than "government" property. For illustrations of that look at
> the ruins of the Soviet Union and the damage they did to the enviroment over
> there.
>
> Also strong governments mean abuse of individual rights.
>
> EvMick
>
The Soviets are a prime example of MY thesis; they behaved like
one big corporation, where their proletariat (labor) basically had no
vote, and their commissars (management) had no conscience.
Representative participatory democracies are indeed beginning to
clean up their act, in response to the expressed will of their
electorates, and to help others, like the Soviets, clean up theirs.
Joe
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