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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Libertarians considered psychotic
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Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 18:53:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 12 18:53:24 1984
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> >          (1) Why?  Let's be realistic:  societies do not "have goals",
> >                  individuals do.
> 
> society doesn't have goals.  The more you look at it, the more important
> collective phenomena seem to be in what actually happens to a society.

Okay, I confess, that first sentence of point (1) was a bit on the
over-enthusiastic side.  The rest of the paragraph still holds up well,
I think.  Slightly restated, the question is to what extent society's
goals, which inevitably do not suit everybody, are to be allowed to run
roughshod over the goals of members of the society.  My position is that
the preferred answer is "as little as possible".  [Note again that I do
do not contend that it can be reduced to zero.]
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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