[bit.listserv.politics] Owning the air

C445585@UMCVMB.BITNET (John M. Kelsey) (02/28/90)

Well, Jim, to be perfectly honest, I didn't think it was a serious question.

But, I'll bite.  I *really* *really* wouldn't want to live somewhere where
someone could claim the right to my air, and therefore cut it off and
suffocate me.  (I assumed this was really obvious.)

How do you think things would work in a space colony, where air really is
being continually recycled by someone?  It seems like the people who managed
the colony would have complete control over everyone....

I guess they'd basically be a government, whether they called themselves that
or not....

Comments?

--John KElsey