Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Doing only that which brings the most profit. Message-ID: <4248@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 19:09:24 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4248 Posted: Mon Aug 20 19:09:24 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 19:09:24 EDT References: <1050@dciem.UUCP>, <999@hcrvax.UUCP>, <8680@watmath.UUCP>, <4226@utzoo.UUCP>, <8700@watmath.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 20 > ...............................are you arguing that the majority should > never force its will on the individual, or that it should not do so for > topics X, Y, and Z? (Who decides what X, Y, and Z are?) Philosophically, I suspect that 'never' is the right word. Practically, this doesn't seem achievable. It is, however, both desirable and practical to try for the closest possible approach to this ideal. > I don't see any "fundamental" difference between the majority forcing > me not to kill my fellow humans and the majority taking my money to > benefit my fellow man. Is there an alternative to majority rule? I don't see any *connection* between outlawing murder and legalizing theft. You are confusing ends (the good of my fellow man, in both cases) with means (forbidding me to hurt him vs. hurting *me* in an attempt to help him). -- "The trouble with a just economy is, who runs the Bureau of Economic Justice?" Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry