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From: arndt@lymph.DEC
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Subject: To Terry Dineen
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 13:14:26 EST
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Don't look now but I think you have made a nonsense statement!!!

"Might does not make right because there is no 'right'; . . ."

       Er, . . . isn't THAT statement a statement of what is RIGHT???
I mean you would disagree, based upon the sentiments above that 'might
makes right because there is a 'right', wouldn't you?

How do you KNOW that there is no 'right'????

Your statement, that there is no right, IS a statement of what you think 
is right!!!!

As for the rest of the sentence "governments are natural phenomena - they
arise quite independently of moral philosophy.", it is breathtaking to say
the least.  What was the Declaration of Independence?????  If not an appeal
to moral philosophy!!  Do you really think that governments spring up as
natural phenomena like mushrooms??  Surely a new school of historiography!

Regards,

Ken Arndt