From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 17:00:14 PST
To: Al Thompson <alt@iquest.net>
Subject: Re: "bad" government
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On Wed, 1 Feb 1995, Al Thompson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 12:31:20 -0600
> From: Al Thompson <alt@iquest.net>
> To: Charles Bell <quester@eskimo.com>
> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: "bad" government
> 
> 
> >> If strong government resulted in liberty and freedom, then the
> >> most intrusive, all-encompassing governments would result in 
> >> its citizens having the most liberty.  Is this the case?  I would
> >> look at the (former) Soviet Union, Iran, Cuba, East Germany, etc., 
> >> for your answer.
> 
> >Unrestricted individual freedom leads to unrestricted freedom of 
> >`private' corporations.  Private corporations uncurbed by society's law are 
> >autarkies: internally totalitarian, externally predatory, as amoral as 
> >amoebas.
> >
> >Is this the shape of the future you seek?

Yes, orginization by choice, not by design.

> You can NOT restrict someone's rights simply because they MIGHT harm another 
> (prior restraint).  If they do cause actual harm to someone, they should be 
> brought to justice.  To place restrictions on someone based on the 
> possibility that may may cause harm introduces restrictions based solely on 
> the authorities' opinions (political philosophy, religion, race, etc).

Precisely.

>  
> That that the shape of the future YOU seek?
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