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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: re Phil Ronzone's stereo
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Date: 16 Jan 90 23:20:00 GMT
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 Y'know, when this thread started it was MY stereo we were 
 talking about.   Now its Phil Ronzone's.   I guess that 
 answers the question about how many it takes... 


 (Actually it just confirms my claim that its all social consensus.)
                                                                    

 Richard H. Graham posts...

>In article <2818@odin.SGI.COM> pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>--  I have a counter-question: how many people does it take to
>--agree to treat "your" stereo as "yours" in order to make it
>--yours? Just you? Ten? Ten million?
>-
>-The answer is one. AND only one.
>-
>...
>-Social contract - justification of theft by a few by invoking the specter
>-		  of the many. See Divine Right of Kings and Fascism.
>
>This is all well and good, but I'm still waiting for your basis of the
>concept of ownership.
>
>If there is some basis of a concept of ownership that is more basic and
>more substantial, I'd like to hear it.

  Don't hold your breath.   Phil will probably call you some names
  or make some catcalls but don't expect him to actually *explain*
  anything he says.   That's not his style.


                                                     ---Peter