Re: MD MOQ and The Moral Society

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 15 2005 - 21:07:36 BST

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    > msh 7-14-05:
    > Pirsig doesn't say that income taxes are immoral, or that government
    > intervention to prevent monopolies should be prohibited, yet you
    > believe these ideas follow from Pirsig's claim that individual
    > freedom cannot be abridged, even though you've yet to make an
    > argument along those lines.

    Did I ever say that Pirsig claimed that individual freedom cannot be
    abridged? Show me.

    > On the other hand, I believe a strong argument has been presented
    > that the unlimited accumulation of individual wealth can and has led
    > to the destabilization and eventual destruction of societies.

    I have not seen any such "strong argument" unless you mean Soviet
    Communists who looted wealth (such as it was) for themselves, leading
    eventually to the destruction of that social system.

    > Therefore, a society has a moral obligation to limit the accumulation of
    > personal wealth, according to the principles of the MOQ.
    >
    > So far, you've refused to analyze and respond to this argument.
     
    Hard to respond to an argument that wasn't convincingly made.

    Platt

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