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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: MY :-) stereo
Message-ID: <1990Jan20.112246.3556@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 90 11:22:46 GMT
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In-reply-to: pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone)

In article <3008@odin.SGI.COM>, pkr@maddog (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>In article <1990Jan19.100315.28073@agate.berkeley.edu>
gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:

>>  What kind of trouble? Would you call the police? If you did,
>>then it seems to me you are buying into the social contract to
>>that extent at least. Can you now claim taxation is
>>theft, etc.?

>If you steal my car, I will go and recover it. If you initiate
>force to prevent me from recovering my car, I will defend myself
>with a greater amount of force.

  In other words, if the Mafia breaks your kneecap, you break Don
Corleone's? Yeah, sure.
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   ucbvax!garnet!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
Imagine what the world would be like if football was a worthy ritual performed
in stadiums but mathematics was a misunderstood activity ignored by almost all.