Gabrielle Rapagnetta <{[N0-SPpam]}cut-out@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Constantinople <constantinopoli@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>Guilherme <groschke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>>> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Constantinople wrote:
>>>
>>>> You want to talk about slaves escaping and slave revolts and free
>>>> people helping slaves? That's actually happened. Famous cases were
>>>> put down by states. Repeat, by states. Repeat, by states. By
>>>> states. Sinking in? Spartacus, John Brown, Nat Turner.
>>>
>>> i know states have helped to protect property in the form of
>>> slaves. thats not at debate.
>>
>>But it is central to the debate. In the real world, people defend
>>their own property. The state does not help but rather hinders them.
>
> Nonsense. I don't defend my own property nor do I have any intention
> of doing so.
So you don't lock your door and you don't have a gun! What's your
address?
> In addition to folks like myself who simply believe that
> their possessions are not worth the price of violence there are many
> more who physically or economically cannot defend themselves.
>
> That is the real world whether you want to admit it or not.
>
>> In contrast, people are unable to maintain slavery privately and need
>> the
>>help of the state.
>
> Not really. You're assuming
I'm not assuming anything. I'm describing historical events.


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