On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jim Burnes wrote:
Guy likes a girl. Wants to have sex with her. She doesn't like him
and does not want to associate with him because he's a boor,
unintelligent, ugly whatever. She shuns him (as does every other
woman in the village).
Shunning is rarely a problem if it's
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Tim May wrote:
Lynching is an act of physical aggression, not at all the same thing
as choosing not to trade with someone, not to invite him into one's
home, not to interact with him.
In my mind, that is a rather fine line.
If Alice doesn't want Bob in _her_ "venue"
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Tim May wrote:
Lynching is an act of physical aggression, not at all the same thing
as choosing not to trade with someone, not to invite him into one's home,
not to interact with him.
At 06:32 AM 9/27/2000 -0400, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
In my mind, that is a
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, James A.. Donald wrote:
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Tim May wrote:
Lynching is an act of physical aggression, not at all the same thing
as choosing not to trade with someone, not to invite him into one's home,
not to interact with him.
At 06:32 AM 9/27/2000 -0400,
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Tim May wrote:
I think "cooperative isolation of someone" is a natural thing.
Shunning, isolation, expulsion...it's how groups deal with characters
they don't like.
Indeed. Lynch mobs are a rational extension of the basic principle.
An empty comment. "Tolerance" subsumes
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Tim May wrote:
If a venue or site or company or piece of property is
privately-owned, then all liberty-advocating persons would certainly
say the owners have every right to tell lesbians and queers to stay
out.
"If you don't want to see lesbians kiss, come to PacBell
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 05:02:20AM -0400, Tim May wrote:
As for your country, Finland, might I suggest you start letting in
large numbers of refugees and other "darkies"? Countries like Finland
and Sweden are fond of yapping about the discrimination in the U.S.,
but are predictably
At 04:36 AM 9/25/00 -0400, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
So how do you feel, for instance, about bullying in the form of cooperative
isolation of someone by his/her peers? Certainly everybody has the /right/
not to speak to someone...
Freedom of association includes freedom not to associate.
Only
At 08:19 PM 9/23/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, David Honig wrote:
Having a child gives you no extra rights to control others' behavior.
No?
It gives the parent the right to tell other parties to leave the child
alone. It also means the parent has the responsibility of
At 6:20 PM -0400 9/23/00, David Honig wrote:
At 01:42 PM 9/23/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
The failure of capitalism is the failure to recognize that human beings
have rights and that business is simply an expression of individual
rights. Rights allow one to pursue an activity until that behaviour
While agreeing about the rights of property owners, many of the newly build or
renovated ballparks have either been financed with municipal bond offerings making the
government a creditor of the team or are owned by municipalities and leased to the
teams and thus not even nominally private
At 09:17 AM 9/23/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
video game market with respect to selling adult games to children.
Video games are machines, I've never met an adult machine, though
I did call that PDP "sir".
Who gets to decide what content is appropriate for my children?
Surely not the state.
At 12:09 PM 9/23/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
It is the target audience the game is designed for. If you seriously claim
you don't understand the distinction between market targets for Dr. Seuss,
Quake, and "Debbie does Dallas" then you're entire position is pretty much
toast.
To whom something
At 01:42 PM 9/23/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
The failure of capitalism is the failure to recognize that human beings
have rights and that business is simply an expression of individual
rights. Rights allow one to pursue an activity until that behaviour
infringes anothers right to engage in their
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