Re: Income from a tax on land.

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:01:33 GMT

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:10:17 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:
>
>Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>
>>
>> Bob, even our free will is something our brains are wired for. It all
>> goes back to neuronal circuits and how Evolution shape them.
>
>It won't wash. Why do people sacrifice their lives for total strangers.
>Dawkin's theories cannot explain that. We are wired, but within that
>envelope we have a great deal of choice.
>

It appears to me we are wired for Heroic actions. That doesn't deny
the selfish gene. It is perfectly consistent with it. 

-- 
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his
effort... is... a mob held together by institutionalized
gang rule." -- Ayn Rand

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