Medicine is an object. So is food.
You have no right to food?
How about pen and paper. Do you have right to paper (you know, freedom of expression?), I mean, paper is an object, and a pen is a tool. Maybe someone who wrote letters to people to get them to kill themselves could be forced to never touch a pen, or a typewriter. Yeah, it's not like they'll need it to maybe write a check or anything?
You're wrong. Buggy whip / car analogy is that both are means of transportation. Other than some hardcore antique collector, nobody wants to "get a buggy whip", they want to get somewhere. If flying cars become the best way, ground car companies will be phased out and go out of business (probably in favor to manufacturers of jet planes or helicopters or whatever).
What you say implies that people want to get plastic discs. They don't: they want music. The music in a CD is the same that can be copied to a hard disk. Also, it's a change of business model: you can't sell music like it's some sort of limited (scarce) good. It's not like we have to go to the music mines and get 100 tons of music ore and then process it into CDs.
If everyone owns a jetpack, taxi cabs will go out of business. They can call the jetpack owner a thief all they want, that doesn't make them relevant (the thief is stealing our transportations!)
"I believe the telephone is a right. However, like all rights if you abuse them, or use them in a way that is detrimental to others they can be taken away from you."
So, this guy can't order a pizza online? He can't email his mom telling her about the case? He can't email his lawyer? What if he has to go to the Justice Department website? Can they ban him from using the phone? Would he have to contact his attorney via smoke signals?
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"Efficient" for a corporation, means spending as little as possible. Avoid redundancies, really crack down on "corruption", where corruption would mean some employee taking money away from the stakeholders.
Like when there was that huge blackout in North America (something about Niagara?), mostly it was because they ran everything at "peak efficiency", so the slightest energy spike got the whole system crashing down.
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You have no right to food?
How about pen and paper. Do you have right to paper (you know, freedom of expression?), I mean, paper is an object, and a pen is a tool. Maybe someone who wrote letters to people to get them to kill themselves could be forced to never touch a pen, or a typewriter. Yeah, it's not like they'll need it to maybe write a check or anything?
All objects, all tools.
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Wouldn't that be sacrificing civil liberties in pursuit of diminished security?
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It's because you looove him, and you want to maaarry him.
TAM and Mike sitting on a tree, KI-SSING!
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What you say implies that people want to get plastic discs. They don't: they want music. The music in a CD is the same that can be copied to a hard disk. Also, it's a change of business model: you can't sell music like it's some sort of limited (scarce) good. It's not like we have to go to the music mines and get 100 tons of music ore and then process it into CDs.
If everyone owns a jetpack, taxi cabs will go out of business. They can call the jetpack owner a thief all they want, that doesn't make them relevant (the thief is stealing our transportations!)
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I applaud your logic.
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Like when there was that huge blackout in North America (something about Niagara?), mostly it was because they ran everything at "peak efficiency", so the slightest energy spike got the whole system crashing down.
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Irony.
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