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Subject: Re: corruption a non-word
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 13:12:30 EST
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> Another question:
>   Do libertarian dictionaries contain the word "corruption?"
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> 	No.
> 
> 	Corruption is a government activity. 
> 	If McDonalds wants to adulterate the hamburger with saw-dust,
> and/or charge $75 for a Big Mac, this is bad business not corruption. 
> (The market place keeps them from such "corrupt practices".)
> 	As there is no market place in the "government services business" 
> we can't call government stupidity "bad business" so we call it CORRUPTION.

Only governments can be corrupt by definition... This is pretty funny. I
think that if McDonalds sold saw-dust hamburgers for $75, and people
bought them because they were told that they were Hamburgers of Everlasting
Youth, and many people died because of it, I would tend to call this
a corrupt company. If they advertised them as McSaw-Dust Burgers, that
would be fine, though. Once again, the libertarians are playing games
with definitions to make their points...

	Wayne