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From: rand@ccieng6.UUCP
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Subject: Re:LIBNETTERS READ
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Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 12:59:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 12:59:49 1984
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Quoted from uiucdcs!renner    Feb 14, 1984
> Another thing we libertarians believe in is the right to defend ourselves.
> Maybe even to defend some other people, if we like them and if they ask for
> help.  I don't need a law to protect me against slavery.  I just need my
> .357 Magnum and a few friends who feel the same way.

And what happens when someone with more friends and say a machine gun comes
along? You get tank and some more friends, right?

Before you know it you will have a few very large groups of "friends"
in the world. These groups will have internal conflict and a lot of
jockeying for power within them. Lets call these nations. In a short
time they will have enough weapons, lets call them atomic bombs, to
wipe everything out, or at least make a very big mess.

Laws are just a means of binding societies together. When there isn't
enough courtesy in some people to fill a thimble you need something.
True some laws are rather crazy, but if you look at the people that
made them you may see why.

Rand A. Hoven         ...!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng6!rand