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From: baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: The Dead are all Equal
Message-ID: <277@garth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 19:08:47 EST
Article-I.D.: garth.277
Posted: Sun Mar 23 19:08:47 1986
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References: <28200740@inmet>
Reply-To: baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Organization: The Institute of Impure Science
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In article <28200740@inmet> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>[Ronald Dworkin, quoted by Richard Carnes]
>>.... In either case, he chooses a mixed economic system --
>>either redistributive capitalism or limited socialism -- not in order
>>to compromise antagonistic ideals of efficiency and equality, but to
>>achieve the best practical realization of the demands of equality
>>itself.  ...
>
>So, efficiency is not even a consideration: equality (of  distri-
>bution)  is  all.  It  doesn't matter how much each citizen gets,
>provided they all get the *same*.

Easy, big fella!  In context, it seemed to me to mean not that
"efficiency is not even a consideration", but that the application 
of the alleged liberal ideal should of itself preclude brute
redistributionism, even without considerations of efficiency.

>A system that produces *nothing* will automatically be best then:
>you can only divide zero into equal parts. 
>
>What Dworkin should favor is not "mixed economy", but  total  an-
>nihilation:  *life*  itself  is a good that is always *unequally*
>distributed, both in duration and intensity. Death  makes equal.

Yes, Jan.  And hate makes blind.

					Baba