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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: (Re:**N) Affirmative Action
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 22:29:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 22:29:00 1985
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>/* mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) /  3:41 pm  Jul 12, 1985 */

>If the closest you can come to a libertarian society (to serve as an example
>on which you base predictions for remodeling our present society) is
>ancient and medieval Ireland, I'd say that your ideas are not ignorant
>nor ivory tower, but stupid and inapplicable.

It would seem that you are illiterate rather, since Nat wrote ancient
Iceland, not Ireland.

>Of course markets initiate force.  Not immediate, physical force
>but force none the less.  The penalties for ignoring that force can be
>life-threatening.  Such as the threat of starvation if you don't jump the
>way the market dictates.

Nonsense.  It is not the market that "forces" here, but the reality of
the scarcity of many resources.

>No, the market essentially can rob you by devaluing your property.

This devaluation entails a drop in the level of demand for (your) property of
and/or an increase in the supply.  How is this robbery?

>I'm all for experimenting and giving it a chance:
>but on a small scale, without coercing me into it through our current
>political system.

This statement would appear to betray a profound ignorance of libertarianism,
as a transformation to a libertarian society from the present one would
involve the elimination of coercion.

>Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh

							Mike Sykora