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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Found in a strange place...
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> Laura Creighton:
> How are you going to make people not morally lazy if you make the
> business of morality somebody else's (ie the government's) business?

I can think of several ways, but isn't it up to those who argue for the 
dissolution of government to solve that problem?  

> Actually, I think that you prove my point. You think that there is
> something wrong with competition -- that it somehow degenerates into
> predation.

You had accused me of finding something *morally* wrong with competition.
That competition can take on a pathological character doesn't make it 
immoral.  It does, however, mean that competition should not be seen as 
positive in and of itself.  Like salt (and government), we can suffer 
from either too little or too much.

>                    What keeps us safe from the predation of government?

Courts, elections, insurrection, emigration, that sort of thing.

					Baba