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To: seowulf
By the way, the one I missed was on defense. I just cannot see how to get rid of the problem of freeloaders. If someone is not willing to defend their neighbors (the community) how does the community defend itself without defending the freeloaders as well? I suppose the Austrian solution would be to kick the freeloaders out of the community.
7 posted on 11/11/2003 11:07:57 AM PST by seowulf
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To: seowulf
That would be 22.

Many people have a problem with that one, I would guess.

14 posted on 11/11/2003 11:21:53 AM PST by logician2u
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To: seowulf
Nope. The "free rider problem" is irrelevant. People who want something will pay for it. If someone else gets some good out of it, who cares.

My score was 98.
16 posted on 11/11/2003 11:29:02 AM PST by Rifleman
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To: seowulf
The fact that what you freely choose to do for your own benefit happens to also benefit someone else does not give you a valid lien on the property of the unintended beneficiary. The converse is that the needs of others do not justify a lien on your property. The two principles intrinsically go together. You can't have one without the other, without logical contradiction, because the two principles are really just different sides of the same coin. The idea that one person's needs form a valid claim on the life, liberty and property of others is, of course, the fundamental tenet of socialism.
31 posted on 11/11/2003 12:03:09 PM PST by EƤrendil (Epitaph of the SF Bay Area: "They came. They saw. They moved to Concord.")
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