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To: Dayuhan who wrote (27944)	1/11/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Steve, Another reply from John Galt (not me): Law and law enforcement are based on defining the line between the rights of the individual and the rights of other individuals. John Galt does not draw lines. Your right to swing your fist in the air ends where the tip of my nose begins. That's too bad. Now we get to the important bit: people realized long ago that the guy swinging his fist, or the guy dumping the poison, is often bigger, stronger, and richer than the victims... Not after they invented guns and other such weaponry. ...and that the victims cannot seek redress by themselves. Which is why they pooled their resources and created law and a mechanism for enforcing law - a collective act. No, a business transaction among individuals. ALL LAW AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT, MORON, IS THE RESULT OF COLLECTIVE ACTION. AND WITHOUT THAT, AS YOU ADMIT, THERE WOULD BE NO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS DEPEND ON INTELLIGENT COLLECTIVE ACTION. There is no such thing as an 'intelligent' collective action as collectives have no mind. However, accidents in nature do happen. Events, at times, randomly converge into something quite new. In this instance, oppressive imperial nations plus a new frontier plus intelligent individual men + a business transaction = the US Constitution. John Galt