<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">But what do you do when you have limited resources and overpopulation? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">The Tragedy of the Commons. Yes, we should all respect others' rights and </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">that solves a lot of problems, but people are greedy and take more than their</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">share. Result: strife and war. We have hardly ever been without it. So I </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">think that getting rid of greed and taking only your share would be even better</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">than following all the advice of the libertarians. Impossible, you say? No more</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">so than getting everyone to respect the rights of others, completely and consis-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">tently. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 12:15 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Dave sill wrote elsewhere: "I'm a libertarian but I don't think that
gives me the right to piss in your pool."<br>
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That, I think is basically the answer. Or put another way, the
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Everyone should have the right to do what they want, as long as it
doesn't get in the way of other people doing what they want.<br>
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Getting a majority of people to accept it and actually live by it,
however, is the 'impractical' part.<br>
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