[MD] NHS? No thanks

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Obviously you have not accepted Pirsig's moral justification for the 
police and military. Taxes were not the issue. Preserving society and 
intellect was. But, alas . . .

[Arlo]
And how do we fund the police and military??? Taxes!!!

But yet you had said... "You do not see that the  power to tax is the 
power to destroy." and "Taxation, an assault on man's pocketbook, is 
an assault on a man's liberty."

Seems to me taxation is not a threat to liberty nor destructive. 
Seeing that it pays for our police and military, I'd say taxes are 
quite freedom enabling.

[Platt]
I try to simplify complicated issues so you will understand. But, alas . . .

[Arlo]
Right. You distort, like in the following.

[Arlo previously]
Public libraries, free roads and waterways, public lands, 
museums,  municipal services, social safety net, consumer 
protection,  environmental protection, land management, yes, I'd say 
government  brings us wonderful things.

[Platt]
I know. You love government and all it's interference in our lives. 
To hell with liberty.

[Arlo]
No, I love "public libraries, free roads and waterways, public lands, 
museums,  municipal services, social safety net, consumer 
protection,  environmental protection, land management" and all the 
other wonderful infrastructural benefits of living in a civilized 
society. These things I mention increase my liberty, not interfere with it.

[Platt]
Nice try at avoiding the question, "Why not fire the professors for 
speaking out for injustice?" And I have to laugh" -- you want liberty 
for the academy but not for the rest of us.

[Arlo]
I answered your question in my first sentence. Tenure, for good or 
bad, protects faculty. I want liberty for us all. Where did I say 
that otherwise? I said, twice, I found the debacle surrounding the 
Duke case deplorable. But, as I've said twice, lynch mobs with 
pitchforks are a common part of our American culture. What more can be said?