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To: Sam who wrote (92648)	10/31/2008 11:12:54 AM
From: Lane3	of 541791

You love to ask unanswerable questions. The word is "rhetorical." I take it as a given that Aristotle didn't propose turning Athens into a commune. If he had, someone would have noticed. goals that decent governments can aim for. I think that everyone having enough but not too much is a fine one. (I think that maximizing liberty is a fine one, too, although I don't know what it has to do with the price of tea in China.) What I was trying to do was differentiate between means and ends. We could achieve Aristotle's goal, for example, by banishing or killing everyone with too little or too much. Yep, that would work. So would taking the totality of stuff and assigning share rights to all the citizens. Of course, when the totality was negatively affected by the lack of personal incentive to produce to the point where the shares became insufficient, then we would have to whack enough citizens to increase the share size to sufficiency. That's been tried already, you say? Yes, the commies have given us a fine historical examples of the failure of socialism and of brutality towards citizens. How we get to Aristotle's goal matters.

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