Re: Wages, Inflation and Social Security

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:24:37 GMT

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:58:19 -0800, The Trucker <mikcob@verizon.net>
wrote:
>
>>
>> The problem is that it isn't theirs either. Why should it be immoral
>> to exclude others if others have no moral claim to what I am holding?
>> That's why I don't think there is a clear philosophical principle on
>> which to stand for moral guidance here.
>
>It is really very simple: We/they have the same exact moral claim to
>use or consume the resource as you. That is the point here. You
>have no _superior_ moral claim. You seem to _want_ a moral superiortiy
>simply because you have staked a claim on some natural resource.
>

Coburn, why are you burning your two neurons on something that
completely transcends you? 

-- 
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his
effort... is... a mob held together by institutionalized
gang rule." -- Ayn Rand