From: "roger" <dodger-AT-drizzle.com> Subject: Re: LibCapitalism, Enemy of Rationality Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:37:08 -0800 > The very same variety of fallacious invocation as Roger. > Praise be to ignorance, Amen. > > Regard$, > --MJ > hey sport, when i start 'invoking' shit you'll know it. fire, brimstone, the whole god damn nine yards :) i note you avoid any substantive issues, such as who exactly establishes and maintains property rights? by the way, do you even know what 'private' property means? a good, working capitalist definition might go something like this: property is 'private' when the 'owner' can exclude others from using it. can we begin by stipulating this definition? it comes right from the textbooks, nes pas? so i repeat my question: by whom and how are property rights established and maintained? bonus joke (everybody's heard it): lord palmerston or gladstone or some brit PM once said when asked about proudoun's assertion that 'property is theft' : 'well, don't know about that but a hell of a lot of theft has been turned into property' at least he wasn't a hypocrit. roger
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