[FreedomCalls]

btw, lugsoul, when you are in a business partnership, and have joint ownership of property, you must respect the other partner's property rights anyway ~ you can't just start dragging off the contents of the stockroom and tossing them in the trash.

This is the argument the East German Communists used to prevent their people from crossing the Berlin Wall. They said the rest of the people had joint property rights in the education of the East German people who wanted to leave and they were therefore too valuable to let go to the West.

[muawiyah]

Hmmmm ~ interesting. I thought it was because they simply went around and recruited too many psychosociopaths into the Vopos. That way they could shoot border crossers without guilt.

Not sure the Vopos cared all that much about school anyway.

However, an argument from the "social contract" implicit in any nation-state is certainly far different than your analysis of the GDR position.

Besides, once I got a couple of other supposed Freepers to argue that there was no "social contract" and they owed nothing to no one at any time on any account, I knew I had surfaced some more of the Libertarian/Libertine crowd who have no place else to post outside of Bartcop.