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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Explorations of "social-interest": Back to Basics
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 16:48:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 16:48:00 1985
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>/* orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) /  5:46 pm  Jun 18, 1985 */
 
>Unless I am either a tinhorn dictator or some sort of privileged
>aristocrat or a high-ranking party member that isn't going to happen.
>And even if  it *does* happen does that make it right?
>Unless some higher purpose is served (eg fire engines and ambulances)
>it is *unjust* and *unfair* for one driver to have more privileges than
>another.

What do you mean by "higher purpose?"  Why should such a purpose
(fire engines, etc.) be considered higher?

>By continuing endless debate about *self* interest, nonLibertarians
>are failing to address the fundamental questions of politics of
>*social* interests.

How do you suppose that a group can have interests which are not derived
from the interests of individuals within the group?

>                  tim sevener   whuxl!orb
 
						Mike Sykora