On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 09:53 AM, Michael Motyka wrote:
Disney doesn't have the power to tell me what I may eat or smoke, except in their parks and on their property.My intuition is that the government is going to be slightly fairer than,With an emphasis on "slightly" I might tend to agree but it looks more like the difference
for example, Disney. That's just a guess, though.
Bruce
between liver cancer and kidney failure than it does the difference between perfect
health and a cardiac arrest.
Disney doesn't have the power to come to my house and search it (except when they collude with the police or other state-sanctioned actors, such as the SPA).
Disney can go bankrupt and vanish if they make the wrong decisions or anger too many people.
Disney cannot draft men into their armies and send them to die in foreign wars.
Disney cannot establish death camps to liquidate Jews, gypsies, Ukrainians, intellectuals, and capitalist roaders.
And so on, for thousands of examples.
Other than these examples, yeah, you and Bruce are right that government is slightly fairer than Disney.
Snort.
--Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States
" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787
