Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Were not drifting; were being tugged - (nf) Message-ID: <9800020@ea.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 16:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.9800020 Posted: Thu Aug 2 16:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 23:45:50 EDT References: <366@hogpd.UUCP> Lines: 30 Nf-ID: #R:hogpd:-36600:ea:9800020:000:1245 Nf-From: ea!mwm Aug 2 15:35:00 1984 #R:hogpd:-36600:ea:9800020:000:1245 ea!mwm Aug 2 15:35:00 1984 /***** ea:net.philosophy / ism780b!jim / 12:25 am Jul 31, 1984 */ > I would like to live in a society in which caring about the old and disabled > was more honorable and desirable than increasing the yearly profit of your > employer. > > I only want to work toward a society which does not, through its values > and mores, encourage people to become that way. Seems to me that you're blaming society for a problem that people have. You can try and force society to be the way you want it to by threatening to throw people in jail, or execute them, for misbehaving. It won't make the people any better, and will (I think) make society worse in the long run. > Then say something about the world you want. I look around me and see a > world full of hate, alienation, destruction, pollution, crime, suffering, > and misery. It seems to me that your philosophy is a major contributor > to the nature of that world. > > -- Jim Balter (ima!jim) /* ---------- */ I want a world where people are as free as possible to do what they want, as opposed to what others want them to do. This doesn't contribute to hate, alienation, etc, does it? Or do you really think that if everybody did exactly what you told them, we'd all be better off?