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Re: Why porn must be stopped at all costs, by Jodi Hoffman
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At 02:04 AM 11/4/97 GMT, Paul Spirito wrote:
>>Alexander Tyler wrote:
>>> "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It
can only
>>> exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote
themselves
>>> largess out of the public treasury."
>
>This assumes there is a "majority of voters". Read James Madison, &
kiss a
>multiculturalist today.
>
But what we actually have is countless pluralities voting to rob each
other. The game would work, except for entropy, in the form of
transaction costs. With each theft from one group to the other and
back again, some money is lost -- so the tension between groups
increases as each demands a larger share of a smaller pie.
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