From: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:42:33 +0800
To: jlhoffm@ibm.net
Subject: Re: Why porn must be stopped at all costs, by Jodi Hoffman
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At 02:04 AM 11/4/97 GMT, Paul Spirito wrote:
>>Alexander Tyler wrote:
>>> "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It 
can only
>>> exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote 
themselves
>>> largess out of the public treasury."
>
>This assumes there is a "majority of voters". Read James Madison, & 
kiss a
>multiculturalist today.
>
But what we actually have is countless pluralities voting to rob each 
other. The game would work, except for entropy, in the form of 
transaction costs. With each theft from one group to the other and 
back again, some money is lost -- so the tension between groups 
increases as each demands a larger share of a smaller pie.
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