Tim May on the worrisome trend toward "signing away rights"
CATO shill,Declan retails one of Mongo's rants."Mongo mad,Mongo shoot
sheriff Bart."
It was funny once.
Once.
Shortly after posting that bubble of wisdom from the hot tub,Date: Mon, 9
Dec 2002 20:24:13 -0800
Tim thought better of it...
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:36:34 -0800
"...And this really does raise some interesting issues which need
exploration, here as well as on t.v. For example, to a kind of pure
libertarian, signing away rights is permissible. Employees at corporations
do it every day, and always have. Many libertarians would even support
selling oneself into slavery (perhaps to pay for some operation or to
provide for one's children.) And indentured servitude is easy to support.
Signing away rights is also common in certain residential communities,
where the local rules ("CC&Rs") may restrict all sort of activities.
However, when it is government one signs rights away to, and when there are
issues of what happens to those who DON'T have the "Mr. Policeman is Your
Friend!" sticker on their cars, the issues are no longer about voluntarism.
Vernor Vinge could probably write some good stories around these themes.
--Tim May
Aryan Rant could..
I said...To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can Mongo sign his name?
From: Matthew X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:12:59 +1100 (sorry it took so long but I ignore
Mongo's posts these days unless they get a few callbacks.It's a tame and
tired issue as this essay spells out...
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit
contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale
corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
ETC...
http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/
From an essay entitled,'The libertarian as conservative.' from...
http://ri.xu.org/arbalest/alembic2c.html
The Libertarian As Conservative.
By Bob Black. An unusual approach, viewing families, work, schools, and
churches as being as coercive as government. Starts boring, then gets good.
http://world.std.com/~mhuben/leftlib.html
You libertarian party hacks,Tim May and Declan McCullagh should get a
room...in Germany.
