Path: utzoo!hoptoad!well!pan
From: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Rationalizations for individualism/libertarianism/objectivism
Message-ID: <5592@well.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 03:02:30 GMT
References: <3386@dasys1.UUCP> <13350002@hpcuhb.HP.COM> <5518@well.UUCP> <4266@chinet.UUCP> <1267@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1267@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> tsf@THEORY.CS.CMU.EDU (Timothy Freeman) writes:
>In article <4266@chinet.UUCP> "The Professor" writes:
>
>
>>... they provide a basis
>>for believing that living by the rule of opportunistic self-interest is OK.
>
>Well, you can either make vague assertions that all of us
>individualists are fucked up, or you can propose useful alternatives.
>Depends on exactly what you are trying to accomplish here...
>-- 
>Tim Freeman
>
What he is trying to accomplish here is a futile attempt to show you that
what you so noblily call "individualism" is nothing more than a selfish
elitism born of the atitude "...I'm going to get mine and screw everyone
else."  The problems of the world will not be solved by retreating into
the self, with all people islands entrenched in their own greed and fear.
We have evolved as social animals and, like it or not, that is how our
fate will be determined, by how well we function is a society- not as
sheep bound to a collectivist will, but as participants in the social
work.
 
To withdraw in the name of individualism is to condemn yourself and
the world to the continued spiral of decay.  Give us your hand, not
your back.

-- 
"To ask a question, you must first know most of the answer."
                                     - Robert Sheckley

   pan@well.UUCP (you figure out how to get their).