On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:46:42PM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: > Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Here we have profound disagreement: if it's theft when a private > > individual does it, it's theft when a government does it. Governments > > are composed of people, and morality doesn't magically change just > > because one is anointed king or elected senator or whatever. If you or > > I have no moral right to do a thing, then we cannot delegate the power > > to do that thing to someone else. > > This depends entirely on the assumption that private property is an > inalienable right, which is by no means in universal agreement.
No it doesn't. And I am not in the least interested in what is "in universal agreement". -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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