Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!nsc!voder!kontron!cramer
From: cramer@kontron.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Poor People/Lazy People
Message-ID: <1123@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 17:09:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: kontron.1123
Posted: Fri Oct 10 17:09:21 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 07:07:53 EDT
References: <1010@cad.cs.cmu.edu> <1050001@hpspkla.HP.COM>
Distribution: na
Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
Lines: 22

> In article <2000@ihlpa.UUCP> gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly/Ken Perlow) writes:
> >>[...]
> >The question is not whether these shiftless and lazy (didn't you forget
> >"dirty"?) folks have a claim on your wealth.  The question is whether
> >you have obligations to people you don't even know.  If you've got
> >any semblance of ethics in your yuppie, designer brains you know that
> >you *do* have such obligations. [...]
> 
> Okay, Ken. You're on.
> 
> Why not let us in on what _your_ ethical system is that demands this
> obligation? I'm not arguing the obligation; I am curious to hear to
> your justification.

And Ken's ethical system requires the government to send out men with
guns to threaten us into compliance.  My ethical system doesn't require
aggression.

So Ken, you LIKE a system based on threats, force, and suppression of
political dissent, as our current tax system requires?

Clayton E. Cramer