dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) (03/27/86)
Followups to this article will go to net.politics. This proof is based on the assumption that freedom more valuable than anything else -- even life itself. Those who disagree with this premise may disagree with the conclusion. A dead person only has a certain amount of freedom -- how much freedom this is is not important to the argument, but I do assume that all dead people have the same amount of freedom regardless of how or where they became dead. A person living under communism can, at almost any time, choose to become dead. Thus all the freedom available to a dead person is available to one living under communism. At the same time, the person who is still alive has other options: resisting, attempting to emigrate "unofficially" to a free country (if there are any), or living the best he can under the circumstances. Thus, the living red has more freedom than the dead man. Therefore, better red than dead. QED -- David Canzi "Offending with substance since 1985"