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RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the (fwd)
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> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:17:12 +0100
> From: Anonymous <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the (fwd)
> This is the central disconnect between you and the other side. You
> obviously have as a core assumption that people should be /required/
> to do what is best for their neighbor.
Not even close junior.
> Most anarchists would reject that assumption.
As would I.
> Instead, an anarchist would say "The best thing I
> can do for my neighbor (and the only thing I 'owe' him) is to leave
> him alone." That is, I have no affirmative obligation to do anything
> for my neighbor to make his life better.
You also have no right to do anything to make their life worse either.
THAT is my objection to anarchism, it has zero, nada, null, nul, nil,
none, zipo recognition of others peoples rights and an individuals
responsibility to respect them.
It further refuses to recognize that to help others is to help oneself in
many cases.
Get your facts straight (but that's probably asking too much).
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