Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

Adam Thornton · 19 May 2009, 21:29 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:29:09 -0500
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
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On May 19, 2009, at 4:19 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

>
> But we (the people on the other side of the argument) are none of us
> arguing for a complete lack of functional civil society and a  
> Hobbesian
> all-against-all. Were you under the impression that we were?

I don't see how you can get from the position that all taxation is  
theft to the position that some governments are legitimate without  
giving up on the first one.

Adam

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