Re: I have been CHALLENGED. . .

"Zebee Johnstone" <zebeej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:28:10 +0200
Maarten Wiltink <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Zebee Johnstone" <zebeej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The local trains say that even folded and in a bag, a folder is a
bicycle and has to have a child ticket in peak hour. WHich is not
unaffordable but is silly.

It is only silly in that taking a stepladder shouldn't be free,
either. Train companies are in the business of renting out space
that moves between stations. If I take a steamer trunk with me, I
use space that could accomodate a human, but because the trunk isn't
sentient, it travels for free. What if Hugo de Groot were in it? Or
Erwin Schroedinger?

Which is why it is silly. Charge people per square foot if you wish
but don't pick and choose.

All laws are in the last instance pick and choose. We prohibit theft,
but if the government decides to take money in specific circumstances
it's called taxes[0]. The circumstances are rather arbitrary. Taxing
inheritances is no less weird than taxing beards, windows, or mopeds.
It would be illegal for me to sleep with anyone just before their
eighteenth birthday, but a week afterwards it would get me in no hot
water with the law. Except as laid down by my lovely wife, of course.

Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink

[0] A libertarian argument I do not necessarily agree with.


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