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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Red plot foiled at govt. agency (OSHA)
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 22:06:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 26 22:06:00 1985
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>/* carnes@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Richard Carnes) /  5:08 pm  May 24, 1985 */

>. . .  How come we never think of these things.  

Pay closer attention, Richard, and maybe you'll learn something. :-)

>Heaven forbid we should impose an injustice on business, but what
>about the problems of worker safety and health that OSHA was intended
>to address?  Millions of workers are daily exposed to such toxic
>substances as lead, cyanide, silica dust, cotton dust, pesticides,
>asbestos, and radioactive materials, and many workers are required to
>risk their physical safety in various ways.  

I believe that most libertarians are atheistic, so the heavenly reference
is probably inappropriate.

Required by whom?  If I say that you are required to do A,
are you going to do it just because I said so?  However, if I
require you to do A in order to obtain B from me, you have two choices:
you can do A, or forget about the deal.  But it's YOUR choice.

>. . . and they are
>outraged by government-imposed safety standards for both airlines and
>nuclear power plants.  Does this antiregulatory stance extend to the
>prohibition of all workplace safety and health regulation as well?  

Yes.

>Let us have [trumpets, please] the Libertarian Solution to the
>problems of occupational risk.  And make sure it's a simple one.

Thanks just the same for the trumpets, but we prefer substance to
sensationalism.

>Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes


						Mike Sykora