Re: Income from a tax on land.

From: Vendor Neutral (neutral_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:15:12 GMT

dontwant@spam.com wrote...
>
> >The point is rationality versus animal behavior. Under extreme
> >conditions, humans become slaves of their own animality and morality
> >ceases to exist. Why? Because moral behavior requires rational
> >thought.
>
> That's not the only reason. Sometimes morality loses the framework
> in which it can feasibly operate. Total war, for example.

Some might say that morality is never so important as then.

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