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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (73530)	5/16/2010 8:32:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation of 74559

Haha.... you have to be kidding: <All this has been thought about deeply by highly able people - hence the discipline of welfare economics > So, what's the death rate for infants and children now after these brilliant exponents of intellect have done their job? What was the death rate before they started "thinking"? Heck, what's the death rate for everyone else too - such as the murder rate? You are perhaps old enough to recall a time when the murder rate in NZ was near zero. You make simplistic assumptions and leap to simplistic extremist conclusions. I also have a distaste for extremists such as the extreme socialists we now have in NZ in pandemic proportions. My experience is that socialists are extremists - there's never enough control for them. They want more, more, more.... Libertarians are moderate people who accept that extremist socialists run rampant in society. We Libertarians roll with it and do okay anyway because we can cope better with the socialist rules and imposts than the socialists can themselves. Your definition of extremist is obviously people who disagree with you. Have you actually read much, or any, of what Ayn Rand has written? Go on, tell me the depth of your study. My guess is that you are just doing the normal thing and claiming a position without actually knowing anything other than second hand simplistic misrepresentation. I admit I had not heard of her until only 15 years ago, long after my political ideologies had formed. And I have only read Atlas Shrugged which was loaned to me as something worth reading - it seemed a bit cartoon characterish, but I'm aliterate so perhaps it's a better novel than I thought. I'm not much interested in fiction and the ideas in it were not generally new to me. Mqurice

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