From: Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 14:42:03 MST
From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
To: extropians@extropy.com
Date sent: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:55:50 -0700
Subject: Re: Final Challenge to Socialists
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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>
> Joe E. Dees writes:
> "My individually refusing to do business with a polluting company will
> not deter them from polluting in the process of manufacturing
> products to sell to those who do not share my squeamishness."
>
> Your complaint, then, is essentially that without political power you lack
> the means to ram your opinions down everybody else's throat. Boo hoo.
>
I just don't want Dow's pollutants rammed down mine.
> Again:
> "Likewise, an individual decision not to participate in one's own
> governance simply leaves it in the hands of others (who most
> probably do not have your best interests as close to their hearts as
> you do) by default."
>
> Exactly why I don't want to leave my "governance" in anyone else's hands,
> especially the hands of those most eager to "govern" me. I don't want to
> "participate" in somebody else's idea of how I should run my life.
>
The idea is you propose, they dispose. The ideas they are
implementing concerning your life are YOURS.
>
> Dick
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