> Forcing someone to hire you or keep you employed is not a "right". It's a violation of another persons right not to employ you if they don't want to. >Forcing someone to pay for your medical care is not a "right", it's a violation of another persons right not to pay for your medical care.
Hey! What fun it must be to be your friend!
Employment rights are not about forcing people to employ you, they are about protecting individuals from abuse by their employers.
As for medical care, do you really prefer to see people die because the do not have enough money? At the most pragmatic level, do you not thik it enriches your life not to have people dying around you for no reason other than lack of money?
>Just been bought FW for by birthday. Not bad, some interesting stuff, but it didn't seem like great or anything. Just another Vietnam-era "fighting-a-pointless-war" thing, plus >teenage male fantasy stuff with compulsory promiscuity. Interesting ideas in changing society over time, but nothing outstanding ("Brave New World" but gay).
The book is really about how the experience of war seperates the poor bastards made to fight in it from the rest of society. The time-dilation plot device (tours of duty last a few month subjectively, but hundreds of years pass back on earth) is just an exaggerated metaphor for what the author felt like after returning from his own stint in Vietnam.
I found it to be a really moving, an rather well written book. Definitelyone of the best anti-war novels I have ever read and a good contender for a place in the top ten SF novels.
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> Forcing someone to hire you or keep you employed is not a "right". It's a violation of another persons right not to employ you if they don't want to. >Forcing someone to pay for your medical care is not a "right", it's a violation of another persons right not to pay for your medical care.
Hey! What fun it must be to be your friend!
Employment rights are not about forcing people to employ you, they are about protecting individuals from abuse by their employers.
As for medical care, do you really prefer to see people die because the do not have enough money? At the most pragmatic level, do you not thik it enriches your life not to have people dying around you for no reason other than lack of money?
>Just been bought FW for by birthday. Not bad, some interesting stuff, but it didn't seem like great or anything. Just another Vietnam-era "fighting-a-pointless-war" thing, plus >teenage male fantasy stuff with compulsory promiscuity. Interesting ideas in changing society over time, but nothing outstanding ("Brave New World" but gay).
The book is really about how the experience of war seperates the poor bastards made to fight in it from the rest of society. The time-dilation plot device (tours of duty last a few month subjectively, but hundreds of years pass back on earth) is just an exaggerated metaphor for what the author felt like after returning from his own stint in Vietnam.
I found it to be a really moving, an rather well written book. Definitelyone of the best anti-war novels I have ever read and a good contender for a place in the top ten SF novels.
That this device could work is... INCONCEIVABLE!
I am trying to use my Matrix Binary Watch to learn to think in binary. It's not easy, but I am definitely getting faster at it.
Stu.