[ExI] Parking a car with 12 neurons

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 16:27:24 UTC 2018


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:39 AM Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:20 AM William Flynn Wallace <
> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Libertarianism is about freedom to do what you want, within limits.
>>
>
> Yes, it's about doing what you want so long as it doesn't infringe the
> rights of others.
>
> It is not about doing what you want and divorcing yourself from the rest
>> of humanity.
>>
>
> No, but if that's what you want, that's OK, too.
>
Yes, it's OK if you don't take anything at all from society.  If you do you
have obligations to that society.

>
>
>> How free is a person who cannot put food on the table for his family?
>>
>
> One can be both free and poor.
> If one cannot feed the children they are VERY poor and should get
> assistance from all of us.
>
>>   There may be nothing more noble than enabling some other person to have
>> more freedom, even if it infringes on some of yours.
>>
>
> As long as it's truly voluntary. But that's not a rights infringement.
> Wealth and freedom aren't interchangeable.
>
> "Am I my brother's keeper?"   YES!
>>
>
> Sure, as long he wants your help.
> If he doesn't want my help, he can starve, but I'll feed his family.
> That's right out of Heinlein.
>
> -Dave\bill w
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