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[Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk>]

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Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> And what about the rest of us (probably a majority) who don't want to
> live in your (U/dis-)topian 19th centuryesque "paradise"?  What of our
> rights?

19th Century? Hardly.  If anything, the ideas I speak of are an echo of
the 18th Century and the Age of Enlightenment.  The Enlightenment
thinkers got us free of the yokes of Monarchs, and that mode of
thought brought us democracy and representative government, that most
people in this discussion seem to think so highly of.  I suggest now
that we go one step further (the Enlightenment, Phase II, if you will)
and acknowledge the inherent sovereignty of every individual.



And how do you suggest that I'm proposing to violate your rights?  I've
said you can do anything you want, as long as you don't coerce anybody
else into participating using force.  What else do you want?  Can't you
see that in the system I propose, you and X number of like-minded people
can build whatever system you want, on top of the principle I'm proposing?

If you and 12 million people want to pay money into an entity (whether
you call it "government" or something else, and whether you call it
"taxes" or something else) in order to build highways, or high-speed
data networks, or whatever, I am not in any way opposed to that.  Same
if it's 20 people, or 299,999,990 people.  Just as long as it's
voluntary.   So how again am I proposing to violate your rights?


> 
> I'd stay up more nights worrying about eminent domain takings for
> economic development.

Well I'm certainly not advocating that. :-)


TTYL,


Phil

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