Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucbjade!mwm From: mwm@ucbopal.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: Re: Newsflash! [JoSH on Socialis Message-ID: <98@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 19:50:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbjade.98 Posted: Fri Oct 18 19:50:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 04:47:58 EDT References: <876@water.UUCP> <28200170@inmet.UUCP> <786@cybvax0.UUCP> Sender: network@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@ucbopal.UUCP (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 22 In article <786@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: >In article <28200170@inmet.UUCP> nrh@inmet.UUCP writes: >> Please bear in mind that the forces of freedom from government don't >> propose to break down anyones door, send your young men off to war >> unwillingly, or tell you what to do with your life, but the forces >> FOR government have, at one time or another claimed that these things >> were necessary to pay "the price of civilization". > >Right. Instead, your forces of freedom from government is proposing to >throw away our current system of keeping people from breaking down our >doors for an untried and probably impractical one. The systems can't >coexist: the current one depends on being the only one. >-- > >Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh Mike, please notice that not all libertarians propose not having a state-run police force. Since that's the only part of the current system actively engaged in keeping people from breaking down our doors, your conclusion doesn't follow.