From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 14:38:23 BST
Hi Arlo,
> Christian morality (and dare I say all religious morality) has always
> professed the greatest acts in caring for your neighbors, and renouncing
> material wealth. I could just as easily be arguing for community health
> care from this perspective, as from a Marxist one. But fear of gulags
> serves propaganda better, doesn't it? In the end, I'm arguing for this from
> (what I believe to be) a MOQ perspective.
It's heartwarming to know you are an advocate of Christian morality and
that you think the MOQ presents Christian morality in disguise. I wonder
how many MD'ers agree with you?
> I restate, Pirig advocated protecting the lives of criminals because of
> their mind/intellect potential to contribute to evolutionary growth. He
> says clearly that a mind is a collection of ideas, and these are at a
> higher moral level than social patterns. He also says it is better for an
> idea to destroy society than for society to destroy an idea. Clearly, there
> is more value placed in protecting mind/intellect than in social-level
> wealth or structures. Thus, to let the sick, who cannot afford life-saving
> servies, say dialysis, "die" because they lack capital means is against the
> MOQ.
>
> Without using gulag-fear propaganda, how do you respond to this?
> [Arlo]
> What is "worthy of public support through taxation" if not placing these at
> a higher moral level than your and my "right" to accumulate wealth? If you
> place the right to accumulate wealth higher than, say, public education,
> why do you support it? Why not argue that no education should be publically
> funded, thus protecting the wealth of the individual?
Have previously responded to all of this. Look up our old exchanges and
reread them.
> [Platt]
> > What's scary is your thinking of personal savings as "static wealth
> > piles," as if no one is entitled to keep part of what he earns, or as if
> > such "wealth piles" are not invested in all sorts of economic activity to
> produce goods, services, not to mention jobs..
>
> [Arlo]
> When did I say "no one is entitled to keep part of what s/he earns"?
Just about every time you turn around and propose another government
program. :-)
Platt
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