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Re: When you see how the government cannot solve gun problems

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What do you mean by freedom? The absence of restriction?

There's something called anarchy, but that has never worked well.

The indigenous peoples lacked laws, and the restrictions created by, property rights. But that's more of a community-based system. Primitive or natural communism.

The reason for the vast bulk of non-criminal law is because folks have to manage the competing interests generated by private property.

The whole private property based economy is a system of restriction. You claim a duty from me that I won't take the thing you possess.

Takes a lot of law to make such a thing work.

My main contention is that you should admit your own system's costs.




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Re: When you see how the government cannot solve gun problems
By: xcslewis
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Fri, 16 Feb 18 9:54 AM
Msg. 23805 of 54959

My perspective is freedom increases human productivity and wealth. The moral argument against slavery was a “luxury” of increasing wealth.

My contention is slavery in the US would have died a natural death in a few more years had the civil war been avoided. In the scheme of things that is a “blink of an eye” given the thousands of years of the institution of slavery. I also think had the natural death of the institution been allowed current racial issues would been reduced dramatically.

I don’t think the constitution would have prevented the ending of slavery in the US.


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