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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (21830)	5/21/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I'll tell you my take on this. To have a "free" society at all, you need to arrive at an agreement to protect liberty. To protect liberty, you must not only protect the liberty to be free, but also the liberty to be "free of"- ie- free of biker thugs. So to guarantee yourself and everyone else who agrees to this compact the ability to be "free of" you need to have an enforcement body of the society to ensure this, or its every man for his Cassull- and then you have destroyed your society.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (21830)	5/22/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Alex: I beg to differ, a philosophy is not necessarily a "collective ideal" but one that must be interpreted and lived within the boundries of reality by individuals. The more a person strays from reality, the more they are at risk -- or put an invisible lien on others who must "carry" the person who chooses to act irrationally. This is the great invisible debt that those who choose to act irrationally owe those who act rationally -- they also owe them their lives. But they would be the first to deny this. FT