[MD] Altruism

[David M]

hi

I'm sure you need to eat food and not own it for sustenance.

DM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Golden" <theplaidninja at hotmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Altruism


> [Craig]
> 1.  One has the right to his or her life.
> 2.  One has to work & produce in order to support his or her life.
> 3.  If one cannot own the profit of this effort, then one cannot support 
> his
> or her life.
> 4.  One cannot own the profit of the effort to support his or her life
> without the right to property.
> 5. :. One has a right to property.
>
> [Ben]
> I'm fine with this argument if property is limited in scope.  A society 
> with
> no right to property is problematic, since you can't live if you don't 
> ever
> get to own food.  But when property comes to mean the sum of all one
> produces, 3 becomes false.  There's no reason why people who are taxed at
> 25% cannot support their own lives.  Or wealthy people taxed at 90%.
>
> I'm not saying this is a good thing to do; I just don't think this 
> argument
> makes a sufficient case for why it's not.
>
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