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From: bill@sigma.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Poor People/Lazy People
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Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 13:26:53 EDT
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In article <2000@ihlpa.UUCP> gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly/Ken Perlow) 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. [...]

Okay, Ken. You're on.

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.