Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: freedom and taxes Message-ID: <76@spar.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 13:55:04 EST Article-I.D.: spar.76 Posted: Sun Feb 10 13:55:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 05:08:49 EST References: <327@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <714@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 19 > Let us examine the alternatives. Either you think that using force to make > others behave "correctly" is ethical, or you think that such use of force > is never ethical. If you consider such use of force to be ethical, then you > have conceeded the right to others to use force to make people behave what > they call "correctly." If they should disagree with you about what > "correctly" is, then the person with the most force is going to control > people. Need I comment on "might makes right" as a political philosophy? >