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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Politics and Ethics--Socialism, Libertarianism, and Capitalism
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Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 18:04:00 EST
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>/* franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) /  6:55 pm  Dec 11, 1985 */

>You talk about the individual good and the public good as though they were
>different things.  The public good is just the aggregate measure of the
>individual good.

Can you provide an algorithm for determining this aggregate from the individual
goods?  Note, the algorithm should include a means of determining what the
individual goods are.

>A
>libertarian system (which really is what you are advocating) recognizes
>property rights as the sole form of rights recognized by the state.  This
>choice of rights to be recognized needs explicit justification.

Actually, it would include the rights to life and liberty also.

>Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka

Michael Sykora