[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end

  • From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:58:12 +0900

On 2005/05/28, at 23:02, Phil Enns wrote:

> The judgment regarding the justice
> of those acts lies outside of the functioning of government but the
> determination of those powers, or what police have a right to do,
> occurs, and can only occur, within government.


Now I get it. There is no semantic difference between powers and  
rights IN THIS PARTICULAR LANGUAGE GAME, the one called legalese.   
The rest of us have gone astray because we persist in talking as if  
this were a more general issue.

John McCreery
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