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Re: The Metaphysics of Contemporary Theft
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One point of the article was that there is a limit to how many people society can support who can't or won't pay for what they need. I have supplied numbers that show that in a few areas the U.S. may have actually passed this limit.

People are taught to believe that they have a "right" to free medical care, houses they can't pay for, jobs that don't need doing, and anything else they can add to the list. Not asking for help. A right.

Are you all set to force someone else to pay that impossible medical bill, pay for the house you can't afford? Not ask - force. If you wouldn't do that in person, what makes it holy when you get someone else to do it for you?

And yes, when you teach people that if you need something, and somebody else has it, you have a moral sanction to take it from them, do you really think that has nothing to do with what happens on the lower rungs of this kind of thinking?

People talk about the old days when you didn't have to lock your house and car. When you could leave a bike in the yard. What was different back then? Were there no poor people? No mortgages? Did everyone have free medical care?

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