Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: Emigration vs. withdrawing from a group:Human Race Message-ID: <273@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 07:46:01 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.273 Posted: Wed Feb 20 07:46:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 04:13:19 EST References: <21860@lanl.ARPA> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 13 Xref: linus net.politics:6993 net.politics.theory:234 Get rid of consumer protection? How silly. Why not get rid of protection against murder and theft as well? There's no ethical difference between poking a gun in someone's ribs and taking their money, and deceiving them about the nature of their own actions for personal profit. They are equally coercive. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.