Date sent: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:25:05 -0800 (PST) From: mark@unicorn.com To: extropians@extropy.com Subject: Re: Final Challenge to Socialists Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> Joe E. Dees [jdees0@students.uwf.edu] wrote:
> >watched an ABC special
> >about a villager who spent an entire day digging down through the
> >mud to the front of his former home just to salvage his door.
>
> You, of course, have sold everything you owned and sent the money over there
> to help out all these people you "care" so much about, right? No?
No, and that's exactly my point. Were I to bankrupt myself, it
wouldn't even be a drop in their bucket of disaster-induced need.
Present-day Honduras is a place and time where government
assistance means the difference between life and death for masses
of hard-working but now destitute people who did NOTHING to
deserve their plight. So you don't care; then go ahead and take
ethical egotism to the solipsistic extreme. It's an irrefutable position,
but a lonely one. Joe
>
> >Feelgood self-righteous anarchist propaganda may do you some
> >good, but it doesn't do a damn thing for all those poor bastards down
> >there.
>
> Neither does feelgood self-righteous socialist propaganda, but we seem to be
> getting plenty of it around here.
>
Maybe plenty of BOTH! Joe
> Mark
>