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Re:You Can't Keep Your Money Because It Belongs To The Gover... by conjecTech on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:39PM (#4867650)
I found it frightening that you would approach such a topic as property from a historical perspective rather than a philosophical one. Simply because something has been the case throughout most of history doesn't mean it should be.
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Re:You Can't Keep Your Money Because It Belongs To The Gover... by lmm on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:05AM (#4870505)
My first point was the philosophical one that the notion was absurd; that it is artificial and ahistoric were pre-emptive counters to claims that it's natural or traditional (it is neither).
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