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From: wfl@maxvax.UUCP (w linke)
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Subject: Re: What is "capitalism"?
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 12:09:39 EDT
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>> How can a relatively small number of people (i.e., the gov't.) know
>> what's best for millions?  Moreover, how can anyone know what's best
>> for anyone else?
>>						Mike Sykora
>
>By the same logic, how can everyone know what's best for *themselves*?
>
>						Baba

That doesn't look like the same logic to me.  Since it does to you,
it's evident that the real disagreement is metaphysical/ethical; namely,
what is the "good"?  Clearly, if you don't think people can know what's
good for themselves, your basic values have nothing to do with an
individual's Pursuit of Happiness (not to mention Life and Liberty.)

Do you place the highest value on your individual life (and thus, by
rational extension, on the lives of others) or do you value something
other than life, to which individual lives may be sacrificed?

						W. F. Linke