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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Evidences for Religion (reposting)
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 01:44:11 EDT
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In article <392@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes:

>This is not just an assertion on Rich's part. There is empirical evidence
>demonstrating the desirability of freedom, and the desirability of
>increasing one's chances of survival. Look at any region of the world where
>refugees are; They are fleeing totalitarian societies, famine, and
>war. This fact is all that is needed to justify Rich's point of view, and
>consequently show that freedom etc is of some value.

But this only presents a problem if you accept the position that all lives
are of equal value, and perhaps many others as well.  This simply is not
universally accepted.  It isn't even clear that a majority truly accept it.

Charley Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe

"So I took their plutonium and gave them a shiny bomb casing full of used
 pinball machine parts."