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Subject: Re: Libertarianism & selfishness
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> Mr. Keller, whether I believe a worker at McD's "deserves" a living
> wage is irrelevant. I am willing to pay a certain amount for my
> cheeseburger, and if it rises above a certain amount, I am going to
> look elsewhere. I fail to see how I "owe" anything other than the
> $1.69 that my burger costs. If you wish to augment the earnings of
> poor persons by charitable means, by all means do so, but please
> refrain from confiscating the earnings of others in order to so do...
> 
> Michael C. Berch

Ahh!!!  You've gotten to the heart of the matter.  The question is,
"Do you have obligations to people you don't even know?" and if so,
"Is it a proper function of society to deal with those obligations?"
By most ethical philosophies, the answers "no" and "no"--which I
suspect most libertarians would give--are repugnant.  The proper
argument against such libertarianism is not against its logic, which
is sound, but against its morals, which are bankrupt.
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