At 05:59 PM 9/8/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
>On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Honig wrote:
>> Ultimately law is backed by violence.
>>
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>And therefore it is bad....yadda, yadda, yadda
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>Bullshit. That is such a general statement as to be worthless.
>
>The 'law' stems from the individual right to self-defence. Law is backed
>by violence because that is what is is about.
So this affects the morality/legitimacy of a so-called 'non-governmental'
tax-collection agency how?
>To then try to portray this as the stem of human abuse of same is simply
>abusive to the reader.
To imagine that paying GEMA is voluntary is delusional.
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>Your thesis is self-referential, inconsequential, and still born.
So you don't like it then?