Hi Lawrence:
Shall I presume that you would not risk your life in a fight against those
who would enslave you? It appears you would be willing to let others
fight and die in a war against a totalitarian oppressor while you sat on
the sidelines. Am I correct in my interpretation? Pirsig says according
to an evolutionary morality that a society has a right to murder people to
prevent its own destruction. What do you think? Is any war moral?
Platt
> Thanks, Platt. May I push the question a bit further?
>
> I think I would prefer to cede _all_ my private property rather than my
> life. And I am pretty sure I would prefer my life to ensuring any other
> individual's own prpoerty. And the same is probably true of freedom of
> speech and limited government.
>
> This does not mean that in choosing my own life I would accept the results
> of those losses of freedom; I would surely launch a campaign to regain the
> right and avenge its loss, but it would be campaign designed to not involve
> the loss of my life.
>
> This still, of course, does not get me to a dollar value for these rights.
> Rather, I am proposing a calculus of relative benefits and strategic
> opportunity.
>
> Lawrence
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