kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/16/86)
From: Terry C. Savage <TCS@USC-ECL.ARPA>
While I agree with many of his positions, Keith Lynch's
contention that Society does not exist is a pedantic Libertarian
fiction. ...
Ok, ok. What I MEANT to say was that people should stop talking
about society without defining what they mean by it. People were
saying stuff that sounds like:
Society provides the individual with food, clothing, money, and
shelter, and it is only fair that the individual give a percent
of the money to society in return.
which is so bogus I hardly know where to begin picking it apart. When
people change definitions in the middle of a sentence, trying to
untangle their illogic is about as futile as trying to repair a rotten
egg.
...Keith
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