Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site godot.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!godot!bruce From: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: gunpoint Message-ID: <188@godot.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 00:55:21 EDT Article-I.D.: godot.188 Posted: Thu Oct 11 00:55:21 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:47:59 EDT References: <1717@inmet.UUCP> <2732@ucbcad.UUCP> Reply-To: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13 Summary: In article <2732@ucbcad.UUCP> faustus@ucbcad.UUCP writes: >> Fine. Libertarians would (in general) be the last to insist >> that anybody give them something they had not paid for. > >Show me a libertarian who would prevent the fire department from putting >out a fire in his house because he did't pay taxes (and was too lazy >to subscribe to a private fire department). He said he wouldn't expect them to put it out, not that he would prevent them from doing so if they wished. -- --Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA {astrovax,cca,harvard,ihnp4,ima,mit-eddie,...}!godot!bruce, BJN@MIT-MC.ARPA