Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!columbia!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior) Message-ID: <3670@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 17:09:45 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3670 Posted: Mon Sep 16 17:09:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 07:18:44 EDT Reply-To: josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 In article <1244@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes: >Person A: "I think the government should do X." >X could be collect taxes, license physicians, or license dogs. >You: "That's socialism. Tell that to 10 million dead kulaks." >Bill Tanenbaum No, I have only used this argument in exchanges specifically about starving (or feeding) the poor. The self-righteous hypocrisy of the socialists in the face of overwhelming evidence of the enormous human cost of their policies appalls me. If you want to argue benefits of dog licenses, I will reply in considerably more moderate tones, proportional to the importance of the subject. By the way, if you'd rather ditch the whole subject, or rather relegate it to net.politics, and discuss things like Arrow's theorem or the economic vs the public-interest theories of voting, I will be happy to accomodate you. This is supposed to be a *theory* subgroup after all. --JoSH