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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
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Subject: Re: legal by definition
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> Might does not make right because there is no "right"; governments are
> natural phenonena - they arise quite independenty of moral philosophy.

> Terry Dineen

I believe I've got you "dead to rights" here... :^)

If you don't believe in right and wrong, I don't see why you bother to 
object to my moral condemnation of governments.  I agree with you that
*they* don't take much account of right and wrong.

I believe that most people believe in right and wrong, and (wrongly)
associate government with right.  That's why I spend my time talking about
it.

--JoSH