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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior & microcephali)
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 19:18:23 EDT
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> Q: There are two men in a desert and they have two identical glasses, one
> empty and one full of water.  How are they to divide the water exactly
> equally between them?
> 
> A: They use the Socialist solution:  throw the water away and each has
> exactly none.
> 
> --JoSH

Oh ha ha ha.  Ho ho.  Such a funny joke.  And so instructive too.
Those Socialists are *so* stupid, they make even you look real smart.

					Baba

P.S.  As near as I can tell, the Libertarian solution to your puzzle is
      that the rightful owner or discoverer drinks both glasses, unless the
      other man can meet the (arbitrary) market price for water.  If no 
      rightful ownership can be claimed, both men voluntarily die of thirst 
      rather than violate property rights.  At least, that seems the most
      natural solution that can be derived from the first principles of 
      non-coercion and the sanctity of property.  Would anyone actually
      conversant in political philosophy care to comment?