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From: jeanne@reed.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Poor People/Lazy People
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 07:32:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 07:32:21 1986
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Reply-To: jeanne@reed.UUCP (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
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In article <2021@ihlpa.UUCP> gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
The question is not whether these shiftless and lazy (didn't you forget
"dirty"?) folks have a claim on your wealth.  The question is whether
you have obligations to people you don't even know.  If you've got
any semblance of ethics in your yuppie, designer brains you know that
you *do* have such obligations. [...]
 
to which someone responded:
Why not let us in on what _your_ ethical system is that demands this
obligation? I'm not arguing the obligation; I am curious to hear to
your justification.

in response, gadfly says:
*My* ethical system that demands "this obligation"?  You say this as if
it had to be some bizarre cultist dogma.  I'm a Jew, and my religion
specifies 613 obligations in some detail.[etc]


Correct me if i'm wrong, but you seem to imply that anyone with any sense
of ethics in their yuppie, designer brains is a Jew (or at least
acknowledges these 613 specific obligations of which you speak).
The person who responded (and me) is asking not why you feel that *you*
have these obligations, but why you feel that they are self-evident
to anyone WASOEITYDB, and whence comes your right to impose said 
obligations by force on one who does not share your view of them.
-- 
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