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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.042727.19103@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom, San Jose, California
- References: <Bxvwop.M1x@access.digex.com> <shl2l14@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1992Nov19.155934.15998@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:27:27 GMT
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- jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes ...
- >In <shl2l14@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- >>I would
- >>say, in fact, that the state shouldn't ever use "moral rights"
- >>as justication for laws. The state has no business making any
- >>statements about "morality".)
- >
- >What do you mean by this? It seems to me that judgements of good and
- >bad are a necessary part of all action. For example, if the state
- >does something to promote economic growth it does it because it thinks
- >economic growth is good. How can the state act at all without taking
- >positions on what things are good and what things are bad?
-
- The state does things to promote economic growth not because such
- growth is "good", but because growth is what's wanted by the people.
- Ditto national security, banking regulations, etc. Good/Bad don't
- much come into most government policies.
-
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- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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