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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
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 17:09:45 1985
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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