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To: LindyBill who wrote (210755)	7/4/2007 9:27:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794253

Lindy, you are doing what the collectivists do = making "states" into something other than a bunch of individuals. <In international relations, it's "the law of the jungle." You attempt to do something that would seriously impede my country and if I have the might, I will take you out. That's the way of the world.> It's the same in interpersonal relations too, among barbarians. Your theory makes you just like the worst of any totalitarian communist dictators. That is exactly how the natural world works, so you are in good company. But what humans have done is escaped from that red in tooth and claw biological basis of our origins and come up with ethical concepts involving agreement to not use force against others and to determine property ownership and respect that ownership. Unfortunately, we are still coming out of the messy historical situation so there is a lot of mess still lurking around, such as who owns what oil and how to deal with commons such as Antarctica, spectrum, the air and oceans. You might think law of the jungle is good when you are on top, but that's a short-sighted idea, as Saddam, Uday and Qusay found. It's time for you to have some Libertarian re-education. Mqurice