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From: rob@arcsun.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Ok, so what is socialism? Re: Down with Democracy!
Message-ID: <184@arcsun.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 11:09:13 EST
Article-I.D.: arcsun.184
Posted: Thu Mar  5 11:09:13 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 21:39:47 EST
References: <3047@watdcsu.UUCP> <4197@utcsri.UUCP> <3059@watdcsu.UUCP> <751@looking.UUCP>
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Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary, Ab.
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Summary: Are you sure about this?

In article <751@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> ...  My own concept, which I call
> libertarian because that's the nearest thing to it, is too involved, and
> not well enough written down yet to be discussed on the net.

Is this a synonym for "confused"? :-)

> ...  You make the mistake that libertarian
>  philosophy is "hermitism instead of cooperation."  It is, in fact,
> "cooperation instead of coercion."  If you won't sell your farm so they can
                          ^^^^^^^^
> build a bypass around it, there are lots of non-violent ways to get you to
> agree.  These include things ranging from paying you a large price to the
> total exclusion of you from commercial society.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That sounds suspiciously like coercion to me.

Oh well, what do I know?
Rob Aitken
{...alberta,...ubc-vision}!calgary!arcsun!rob
"[If we had done something about research] 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in
this jackpot today."
                         - Brian Mulroney, March 4, 1987