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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
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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.
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--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
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