From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Mark Wilden Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/12/02 Message-ID: <348443A9.4B65@mWilden.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 294574350 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347C92F0.152B@mWilden.com> <65k6jg$e6b$2@NNTP.MsState.Edu> <347DEBB2.5B6A@mWilden.com> <65lbe1$ond@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <347E4203.2A5E@mWilden.com> <347EF4EC.5046@cpqm.saic.com> <347F2A17.5EDB@mWilden.com> <65p8j0$f4l@netra.montana.edu> <3480929A.5A37@mWilden.com> <65s0tm$8dg@netra.montana.edu> <3481D6F1.1E09@mWilden.com> <65t8ks$ifn@netra.montana.edu> Organization: The Mark Wilden Company Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Elmore wrote: > > Mark Wilden wrote in message <3481D6F1.1E09@mWilden.com>... > >Larry Elmore wrote: > >> > >> Of course. But that's just a fact of life. > > > >Not necessarily. There's nothing biologically necessary about inheriting > >wealth. > > Not _biologically_ necessary, but when have children _not_ inherited their > parents' wealth except where the government has decreed such, _and_ uses > force to ensure compliance? Where have people _not_ murdered one another except under those circumstances? :) You sound like a libertarian, but most of us think _some_ government is necessary. (BTW, I would have trimmed comp.lang.ada from this post, but for a delightful exchange with a member of that group who seemed to think he owned it. I think he can use all the wisdom of mine he can get.)