Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Comments on Libertarianism Message-ID: <2826@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 13:25:57 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.2826 Posted: Wed Nov 28 13:25:57 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 19:35:07 EST References: <110@talcott.UUCP> <22400046@ea.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 21 > > The babble that "I am free, so I have property, so I can do what I > > like with it, therefore, I won't pay taxes for a particular set of things" > > is vacuous, pure & simple, since if the argument were followed through, then > > society would no longer exist due to people refusing to pay for the services > > we all know & love. > > If we all "know & love" them, then they would pay for them. If people > refused to pay for them, then they must not "know & love" them. There would > probably be a short period of confusion while people sorted out which of > the government functions they actually were willing to pay for, but society > wouldn't disappear. Here we have a simple argument from the goodness of human nature -- if you want public education, for instance, and you don't have to pay for it, you will anyway even though you know that there are a lot of people who also want it and also might pay for it. People just don't think that way -- they want something done that is for the public good, but they won't pay for it unless they know that everybody else is paying their fair share too. You can't rebuild society unless you rebuild human nature first... Wayne