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From: mag@lcuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A)
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Subject: Re: Poor People/Lazy People
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Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 14:31:50 EDT
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> 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.  So spare me your lookin'-out-for-ol'-
> number-one pseudo-moral pseudo-outrage.  If those unwashed low-lifes
> knew how lame you are they'd murder you in your sleep.
> 
> ken perlow       *****   *****

Ad-hominem attacks + arbitrary assertions != persuasive argument.

What are these obligations?  Where do they come from?  On whose
authority?  Etc.

Mike Gray
AT&T Bell Labs