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From: fagin@ucbvax.ARPA (Barry Steven Fagin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Helklping people. obligations, etc.
Message-ID: <7853@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 23:56:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 23:56:18 1985
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Reply-To: fagin@ucbvax.UUCP (Barry Steven Fagin)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Summary: Contains a typical libertarian reply to Tim Sevener

>If somebody is lying wounded on the sidewalk are you obligated to help?

No (but I would anyway).

>If an orphan is running around naked with a belly bloated from hunger
>are you obligated to help?

No (but I do anyway, because CARE does good work).

>If you bring a helpless infant into this world are you obligated to
>feed and care for it?

Yes.

>Helping each other is quintessentially human.
>             tim sevener  whuxl!orb

Ahh, but coercing fellow members of your species who fail to
perform altruistic acts is quintessentially bestial.
-- 
Barry Fagin @ University of California, Berkeley