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Subject: the mix that wasn't
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Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 18:49:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 18:49:01 1983
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The middle ground, construed as a set of moral positions, is not a mix of
selfishness and "altruism".  I say again:  a mix must contain some of both.
Altruism and selfishness, as Tom Craver defines them, are mutually exclusive
-- where there is one, there cannot be the other.  Saying that they can be
mixed is like saying that virginity and prostitution can be mixed.  
 
--Paul Torek, U of MD College Park