[105311] in Cypherpunks
charity at the point of a gun (Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone) (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Mon Nov 9 21:40:45 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:16:15 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:27:50 GMT
> From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: charity at the point of a gun (Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone)
> (fwd)
> What people aren't willing to pay for shouldn't happen. Period. If
> that means people starve well those complaining loudest had better
> dig deeper into their pockets.
This attitude is exactly why such system as anarchy won't ever work.
> _Then_ Jim's "No state can govern those
> who don't wish to be governed" starts to become true.
It's true as much now as it was at the height of the American or French
Revolution.
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