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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 68795, member: 57463&quot;]Might makes right.&nbsp; There has never been a tribe, clan, gens, city, nation, or empire whose, father, grandfather, council, king, emperor, soldiers, hunters, honor guard, shamans, priests, witch doctors, any other <b>man, woman or child</b>, will not <u>TAKE</u> what they <u>NEED</u> in an <u>EMERGENCY</u>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Read Ayn Rand&#039;s essay on &quot;Lifeboat Ethics.&quot;&nbsp; For instance, here:</p><p><a href="http://www.jeffcomp.com/faq/murder.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jeffcomp.com/faq/murder.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jeffcomp.com/faq/murder.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Ethics of Emergencies,&quot; Ayn Rand, from <i>The Virtue of Selfishness</i>, New American Library (NAL), 1982.&nbsp; Here is the arch-capitalist, a moralist opposed to government intervention except specifically and narrowly to constitutionally protect the lives and property of its citizens.&nbsp; Oh, but, in an emergency ...</p><p><br /></p><p>We numismatists know ad hoc receipts given by guerrilla armies to people whom they robbed -- for instance Filipino patriots fighting against the Japanese.&nbsp; Some come from Americans, corporate managers, caught in the Phillipines who went underground with the resistance.&nbsp; These armies <b>took what they needed </b> and gave the victim a <u>receipt</u> which could be cashed in, assuming that this side actually won the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the U.S. government figures that the life of the nation is at stake, then they will requisition what they need... and you will get a collectible numismatic receipt.&nbsp; That is the reality of emergencies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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