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From: baba@flairvax.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Comments on Libertarianism
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 03:36:10 EST
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>     A key point, however, is that individuals interact, not with society
>as a whole, but with other individuals. They may interact with many
>large numbers of others, even with enormous organized groups- but they
>never interact with the whole. If I incur a debt to every other person
>alive, one may rightfully say that I owe everyone something, but not
>that I owe SOCIETY anything...
> 
>  ...People do not interact with the aggregate that forms society.  
> How then can they owe it a debt? Even more importantly, if they do 
> owe it a debt, how can government claim payment of that debt in 
> the name of the whole?
>                                       J. Bashinski
>                                       ...ucbvax!bashinsk%ucbcory

Wow! What a neat trick!  Let me try a different application.  PG&E has had
the audacity to present me with a bill for my utilities last month.  Now, it 
may be true that I owe a debt to *some* PG&E employees, those who actually had
a hand in delivering gas and electricity to me, and to *some* PG&E shareholders,
those who actually paid for the resources that were used on my behalf, but I
owe *nothing* to the aggregate of PG&E!  Even more importantly, if I *do* owe
it a debt, how can the collections department claim payment of that debt in the
name of the whole?  This is going to save me hundreds of dollars a year!

					Thanks,
						Baba