[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

J Henshaw jeff at jhenshaw.com
Tue Jun 18 15:18:37 UTC 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Miller, Jeremy" <JMILLER at ci.albany.or.us>
To: <plug-talk at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: RE: [PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)


> Nobody is saying a person chooses whether or not to be hungry.  What you
> value is based on your choices and priorities.

Eating is priority number 2.

This is understood well by the King,  who stated recently "A man's desire to
feed his family is a powerful motivator"

I wonder why he is thinking about that while he passes 4.5 billion to stand
an army over the airports railways highways and waterways?

Big dots here for the perceptive,  or even for the not so perceptive.

Gold is good for looking
> pretty, being easily molded, and a good conductor.  (Beyond that it is
> useless, unless we choose it as a medium for trade.)  So far those
physical
> properties have been sufficiently desireable to enough people that it IS
> useful as common currency.   Everyone wants it, so it works. But what if
> no-one wanted it anymore?  Or what if anyone could just make more at will?
> How does that differ from other forms of currency?
>

All irrelevant,  please keep the focus.

>
> Let's find this starving Serb.  Offer him a meal, or the equivalent value
in
> gold, and see which is chosen.

Meal first, gold second.  But if he finds out you cheated him via fraud and
the gold was 2/3 tin you are still a criminal.

>
> Even better, find the person he is choking, and offer him a big bag of
> gold... or the immediate return of his (normally free) air supply.

Don't cheat him or take his food and he won't choke you.

In other words,  don't mess with his private property,  defraud him, or
injure him and he'll have no claim at Law







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