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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Population control & Freedom
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 19:41:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 19:41:21 1986
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Reply-To: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
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>But consider three parent pairs.  Mr. and Mrs. X think people are
>crowding seals out, and refuse to have kids.  Mr. and Mrs. Y be-
>lieve human kids are compatible with seals, and they have 4 boys and
>a girl.  Mr. and Mrs. Z couldn't care less about seals, and have 4
>girls and a boy.
>
>In the name of *what* principle may the X's punish the Y's and the
>Z's?  I don't see any.  
>		Jan Wasilewsky

I don't see the point of this confused and/or confusing comment, but
here is a response.  The X's may impose sanctions (or penalties) on
the other couples only if they have the legitimate political
authority to do so and if the specific measures taken are not unjust.
The same is true of the other couples.  So it is a question of
political philosophy:  what constitutes legitimate authority and what
is just and unjust?

Richard Carnes