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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Re: Libertarianism as ideology
Message-ID: <1065@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 17:06:36 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.1065
Posted: Thu Mar 28 17:06:36 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Mar-85 01:51:15 EST
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Reply-To: josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <518@digi-g.UUCP> brian@digi-g.UUCP (brian) writes:
>In article <1024@topaz.ARPA> josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) writes:
>>...Example:  I have a collection of transistors, capacitors, and so forth,
>>on the table in front of me.  I can describe it in terms of each component
>>and its relationship to each of the others; or I can describe it as a 
>>radio....
>>
>>--JoSH
>
>This from someone who describes ANY society that kills > 10,000,000 of
>it's own people as socialist??  (Gee, I guess any group < 10,000,000 CAN'T
>be socialist).  I guess he calls any collection of transistors, capacitors,
>etc, a radio, too.  (I am currently typing on a TeleVideo Radio). 
>B'goSH, JoSH, your arguments would be more convincing if you used proper
>definitions, instead of just making it up as you go along...
>
>Merlyn Leroy

To anyone other than the ingenuous Mr. Leroy, my saying that I can describe
a collection of components as a radio is tantamount to an assertion that
it is a radio (and not, for example, a terminal).  

Furthermore, Mr Leroy has misquoted me, and emphasised the very word
which makes his attribution a lie:  I said that if a nation kills 10M
of its people *there is a good chance* it's socialist.  Whatever the
actual flaws of the contention (dealing mostly with the definition of
"socialist"), nothing at all is said about nations which do not kill
10M.  It's as if I had said, "any place north of Juneau, Alaska is 
cold in January"  and Mr Leroy had replied "Gee, I guess Bangor, Maine
CAN'T be cold in January".

--JoSH