Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: legal by definition Message-ID: <626@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 16:24:03 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.626 Posted: Wed Feb 13 16:24:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 03:08:52 EST References: <24bb0e6d.264c@apollo.uucp> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 > 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