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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Libertarianism and the Police
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Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 12:11:58 EDT
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>= Clayton Cramer
>and worth somewhat higher prices.  If the public can't discern truth
>well enough to figure out what dishwasher to buy, how can they pick a
>President or Congressman?
>

No comment required!!!

>> advertise it.  Private quality-testing groups are great, for those with
>> the sense to take advantage of them, and the time to do so.  Unfortunately,
>> we don't all have the time to research each purchase, even if we might
>> have the sense to want to.  So we like to be able to rely on the notion
>> that false advertising and dangerous goods are rare, and eliminated
>> whenever they are found (I guess that's still a pipe dream, but things
>> are better than they used to be).
>> -- 
>> 
>> Martin Taylor
>
>People sure are stupid, aren't they?  Our is it that you believe that you
>are so much smarter than everyone else?

Where do you get either of those ideas out of what I said?  I don't think
ANYONE is smart enough or has enough time to research whether lemons
from that orchard used dangerous pesticides, AND that this or that
toothpaste isn't just chalk in oil, AND that ....  for all purchases.
I want a blanket assurance that my common purchases are going to do
more or less what they claim and are not going to kill me.  Private
quality-testing groups are great for the major purchases over which
one is willing to spend some time and effort.  But I'd like to have
some time left over after just surviving, for work and for play (and
for sleep, too).  And I don't want to rely on my heirs getting a big
judgment on a lawsuit over the meat that killed be.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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