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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Communism
Message-ID: <1453@looking.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 00:31:12 GMT
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In article <5486@watdragon.waterloo.edu> hwarkentyne@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Kenneth Warkentyne) writes:
>I think that all of us agree that every human being has the right to
>have an equal chance to succeed in life.  The problem comes in
>interpreting what constitutes an equal chance.  For me, an equal
>chance means growing up in decent living conditions, having a good
>elementary education, and being able to persue higher education
>if one has the aptitude regardless of how much money one has.
>Also, if a person finds himself out of work, he should be able
>to live while he is trying to find another one.  I believe that
>society owes these necessities to its members and that the best way to
>provide them is through government agencies.

This statement is incomplete, or so it seems.  You forget to add:
	
	Furthermore, I feel that everybody else should act the same
	way, and that everybody, regardless of how they themselves
	believe, should be forced, at gunpoint if necessary, to pay
	for these things that I believe in.

It's all very well and good that you believe in, and say these things.
I just don't see how you get the great leap that just because *you* believe
in them, everybody should pay for them.  The problem does come in
interpreting what constitutes an equal chance.  I'll take my interpretation
for me, and you keep yours for you, thanks.
>
>Ken Warkentyne

[ Now, I know what the initial answer to this is going to be.  "the majority
believes as I do, so everybody should be forced to do what I want."
It seems that the concept of democracy minority rights is only invoked when
it's convenient.  Let's hear an answer to my question that doesn't boil
down to how might (numbers) makes right. ]

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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473