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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response (Crux of the Biscuit)
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 04:54:34 EDT
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> No basis in logic?  Given that one desires all human interactions to be
> voluntary, it would seem logical to forbid those that are not.
>
>				Nat Howard (nrh@inmet.UUCP)

Why should I desire that all human interactions be voluntary?  Some of the 
things I've been coerced into doing have ended up being positive elements 
in my life.  I don't enjoy being coerced, but that displeasure is only one
of a number of aspects of a given situation.  I tend to decide whether or
not an interaction was worthwhile on the basis of its effect on me and on 
others, rather than any one characteristic of the action itself.  I can 
believe that you might personally experience coercion as so galling as to 
negate in your own mind any positive result it might bring about, but there 
is no *logic* in such a perspective.  Just preference.

						Baba