[MD] A Place for the Principled Person

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Gene]
People need to understand their responsibility, as individuals, to society.
That's what I think.

[Arlo]
This wording worries me, because those like Platt will simply read
"responsbility" simply as "responsibility to adhere to the particular social
morals I adhere to". I see "responsibility" more along the lines of, "if I have
to have less, so that we can have public libraries, then so be it" or "one
night a week I volunteer to teach kids how to read".

George Orwell believed there was tyranny possible in both dictatorial
"collectivism" and unrestrained "individualism". Of the oft-quoted Hayek,
Orwell wrote that he "failed to recognise that "a return to 'free' competition
means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more
irresponsible, than that of the state"." (Wikipedia)