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From: pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Phil Ronzone's stereo
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Date: 17 Jan 90 20:20:19 GMT
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In article <8092@unix.SRI.COM> ellis@chips.sri.com.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes:
>    Slavery, infanticide, Stalinism, Nazism, all these real world horrors
>    are beyond reason's power to condemn, or so Peter would have us believe.


Correct.

I assert that every human being has the right to their own life (as well
as various classes of tangible property).

A result of that assertion is that slavery, infanticide, Stalinism, Nazism,
murder, etc. is WRONG because it violates that right.

It IS an assertion. It is not engraved in rocks, it is not encoded in our
genes.

But it IS a starting point.

If you don't agree, that is YOUR business.

If you think it is sort of a right, except when a whole bunch of people
decide it isn't, that's your business also (and your problem as well).



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Phil Ronzone   Manager Secure UNIX           pkr@sgi.COM   {decwrl,sun}!sgi!pkr
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