Subject: Re: Workings of an ideal government
From: John Anderson <panic-AT-semiosix.com>
Date: 01 Jul 2003 20:23:30 +0200


> "M.A. Johnson" wrote:
> > We must cease believing in anything in this world, in facts,
> > in justice, in universal consent, in human language; or else
> > we must admit that these two words, "property" and "plunder",
> > express opposite, irreconcilable ideas that can no more be
> > identified than yes and no, light and dark, good and evil,
> > harmony and sicord.  Taken literally, the famous formula,
> > property is theft, is therefore absurdity raised to the nth
> > degree. It would be no less outlandish to say that theft is
> > property; that what is legal is illegal; that what is, in
> > not, etc.  -- Frederic Bastiat

Heh. Syllogism vs koan. If you can't state something in terms of
deductive logic it's not worth stating.

<removes tongue from cheek>

bye
John