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To: Krowbar who wrote (27433)	12/30/1998 2:46:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Del, All this talk about Randians (saying that almost makes me want to be one, for completely different reasons) made me curious - I read a few of the novels years ago, but they made no great impressions. Looked around the web, and found this bit, from Rand's own "Introducing Objectivism": The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man's rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. Got a real laugh out of that. Notice how lightly and unobjectively she skips over the issues of what a criminal is, how fast new ways of taking advantage of others emerge, and how government must adapt to reflect constantly changing attitudes about what "man's rights" are and how they can be protected. Wouldn't it be great if it were really that simple? Anyone, anywhere, who thinks there is a fixed rule for good governance, or a static definition of how government must interact with the private economy, is a screaming idiot. Steve