[421] in libertarians
[raymie@larch.lcs.mit.edu: Re: Not yours to give]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damartin@ampere.mit.edu)
Wed Nov 16 17:21:04 1994
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 17:13:23 -0500
From: damartin@ampere.mit.edu
To: objectivism@MIT.EDU, libertarians@MIT.EDU
> I disagree. From the essay:
>> Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it
>> is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long
>> after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his
>> death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to
>> him.
Uhh, yeah, you are right. I missed that part the first time I
read it.
Of course, so would many other readers, which would distract
the whole discussion away from the central point of the essay just
like I did. :-)
-David
