[419] in libertarians
Re: Not yours to give
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damartin@ampere.mit.edu)
Wed Nov 16 14:55:54 1994
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 14:44:08 -0500
From: damartin@ampere.mit.edu
To: objectivism@MIT.EDU, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9411161810.AA16695@blizzard.lcs.mit.edu> (message from Raymie Stata on Wed, 16 Nov 94 13:10:05 EST)
It is a great essay. There is only one problem with it. The
example used at the beginning of the essay, the naval officer's widow
isn't a good one. If the officer died in combat, his widow should be
compensated. Otherwise, you won't have many people willing to join the
military. However, the best way to do this would be to make part of
the regular pay of a soldier be a life insurance policy with the
soldier's family as the benificiary. Then it would not be charity, but
simply part of the usual military expenditures.
-David Martin
