On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:49:10AM +1300, David McNab wrote: > > TB> Do *any* businesses, or industries for that matter, have a "right" to > TB> exist? > > To answer this question one would first have to ask, does any *person* > have a right to exist?
No, one does not need to ask this. First, there is a fundamental difference between a real person and a corporation, which is the latter is just a legal fiction, a legal abstraction, which exists only because of the will of a particular government to make it so. A corporation is merely an artificial entity with one sole goal and perogative - to make as much money as possible no matter what. -- Yes, I know my enemies. They're the teachers who tell me to fight me. Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite. All of which are American dreams. - Rage Against The Machine -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 1162 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/chat/attachments/20020119/3cd104a0/attachment.pgp>