Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!dual!ucbvax!faustus From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Christopher) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Rent control, etc. - (nf) Message-ID: <988@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 14:28:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.988 Posted: Wed Jun 6 14:28:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 08:26:40 EDT References: <1459@inmet.UUCP> Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 17 Some of the things you mention are actually things that we don't need government for. Sure, you can subscribe to fire departments, highways, and so forth, although I remain to be convinced that things like highways could be properly handled by anything but the government. But what happens when somebody breaks into your house, or kills your family or something? Are you going to 'subscribe' to a private police force to prevent this, or catch the culprits? And what happens when the Russians invade your town? You'll 'subscribe' to a privately run army, I suppose. You could subscribe to private judicial companies that settle affairs between you and your neighbors, and put them in their own private jails if they break the law. I think in this sort of case you'd be better off living in a cave. There's a big difference between 'less government' and 'no government'... Wayne