----- Original Message ----
From: david buchanan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 12:22:30 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Capitalism
Platt wondered:
Without the concept of real estate ownership protected by law what's to prevent
my gang from coming into your "space" and kicking you out?
dmb says:
Oh Please. Gang rule is the opposite of civilization regardless of the specific
concepts of ownership that obtain. I mean, it's more than a little ridiculous
to suggest that gang rule and property rights under capitalism are the only
options. What keeps your gang from coming into my space is not the concept of
real estate ownership. It's the police and the legal system. It's the
government. As Jefferson said in our most famous document, people have rights
and "governments are instituted among men in order to secure these rights".
This is far more noble than merely protecting turf. Every government and every
gang boss protects turf. Hell, chickens and monkeys and dogs protect turf.
Every two year old's favorite word is "mine, mine, mine" but nobody mistakes it
for a political philosophy.
Ron:
Greenspan did
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