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From: john@bmcg.UUCP (John Wallner)
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Subject: Re: Re: Emigration vs. withdrawing from a group:Human Race
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> Get rid of consumer protection?  How silly.  Why not get rid of protection
> against murder and theft as well?  There's no ethical difference between
> poking a gun in someone's ribs and taking their money, and deceiving them
> about the nature of their own actions for personal profit.  They are equally
> coercive.
> -=-

True, fraud is as equally coercive as force.  But advocating 
"getting rid of consumer protection" is not the save as advocating fraud.
My understanding of the original authors position is that
even without the EPA, fraud is still coercion, and should be punishable
by law. 

						John Wallner
						bmcg!john