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Date: Sat, 16-Aug-86 12:08:57 EDT
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    From: Terry C. Savage <TCS@USC-ECL.ARPA>

    While I agree with many of his positions, Keith Lynch's
    contention that Society does not exist is a pedantic Libertarian
    fiction. ...

  Ok, ok.  What I MEANT to say was that people should stop talking
about society without defining what they mean by it.  People were
saying stuff that sounds like:

  Society provides the individual with food, clothing, money, and
  shelter, and it is only fair that the individual give a percent
  of the money to society in return.

which is so bogus I hardly know where to begin picking it apart.  When
people change definitions in the middle of a sentence, trying to
untangle their illogic is about as futile as trying to repair a rotten
egg.
                                                              ...Keith
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