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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: RE Rights, Social Convention, and Objectivism
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Date: 20 Jan 90 11:09:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)

In article <48234cc4.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, nelson_p@apollo (Peter
Nelson) writes:

>Should we be satisfied that the horror or revulsion that we
>might feel at violating certain values is sufficient reason for
>not doing them or should we consider the possibility that we have
>merely *internalized* a set of values from society?  If we have
>internalized social or cultural values then are we truly free
>individuals?

  I dunno, Peter: why don't you exterminate all the Kulaks in the
Ukraine and report back? Does it matter if I am scum, as long as
I am truly free scum?
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ucbvax!garnet!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Brahmsgangster/Berkeley CA 94720
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