Re: Income from a tax on land.

From: esenter (esenter_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:22:29 -0600

Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:33:27 -0600, esenter <esenter@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:40:25 -0600, esenter <esenter@comcast.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:28:28 -0600, esenter <esenter@comcast.net>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:11:23 -0600, esenter <esenter@comcast.net>
>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Only an omnipotent being can make something right absolutely.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Why?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Because whatever you think is right requires might to make it so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Only if might makes right. In which case Stalin was the most moral
>>>>>person on Earth.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Since Stalin controlled only a small corner of the Earth for only a
>>>>short season his morality was relatively insignificant.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Only if you think 100 million dead is insignificant. In any case, I
>>>don't accept the premise that might makes right. That's all there is
>>>to it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>In that case, I suppose you would not mind if I "borrow" your car for
>>awhile and not return it.
>>
>
>
> Huh? Where did you get that one from?
>

Since you don't accept the premise that might makes right, then you will
not apply any force or other might (like the cops or courts) to get your
car back and you obvious don't believe you have any right to it since
you won't defend your right.

>
>>The premise is 'might makes right' - not 'might is right'.
>>
>
>
> So?
>
>
>>Only omnipotence is right.
>>
>
>
> Can't see how.
>
>

Maybe you will see it when you realize and accept 'might makes right' is
a fact of life.

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