[65636] in Cypherpunks
Re: Workers Paradise. /Political rant.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Sep 17 01:52:47 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 07:32:56 +0200 (MET DST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Black Unicorn wrote:
> > > The thing about _traditional_ charity, of the religious or community sort,
> > > was that it was not treated as an "entitlement," as something the
> > > resentful masses could "demand" as part of their "human rights."
> >
> > There's no substantial difference between their resentful whining about
> > their rights
>
> Such as the "right" to health insurance, the "right" to free checks for
> sitting on one's chair, the "right" to be treated preferentially as
> equally qualified non-minorities applying to the same job, the "right" to
> housing, the "right" to free education, the "right" to be paid three times
> what your labor is worth in the lowest bracket jobs.
I wasn't surprised when Attilla flogged a cartoon liberal in responding
to me, but I'm quite surprised you have. I didn't produce or defend a
litany of "rights," I pointed out that Tim is resentful and whines.
> > and your resentful whining about your rights
>
> The right to personal property.
Malapropos.
> Beginning to get the picture?
I've had it all along.
> All of the former were created in the last 60 years out of whole cloth
> more as "revolution insurance" than anything else. They are rights
> because someone said they were, not because they are well or logically
> grounded.
Absolutely.
> > - except maybe that you whine more.
>
> I should hope he does.
Why?
