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To: arun gera who wrote (25196)	11/14/2007 4:53:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 219356

Good post. Of course we are a product in a causal way of how we are made [DNA, food, information supplies]. But what we become and what we do are our choice using what we have got. We make choices every day which determine our futures. I have argued in the past that what we choose to become is also deterministic, and "free will" is an illusion. But we do make choices, even if they are pre-determined, which is paradoxical. On emotions vs rationality, I think emotions are the impetus and rationality the steering. Some people have a higher ratio of thinking to emotion than others. <Would it be possible that property rights were granted so that the collective (family/clan/state/country/kleptocrat) could take its share of debt/duty/tax/toll in what seems a fair way?> Property rights are just mutual defence pacts among particular political entities. There is no "collective", there is only other people vs one-self. Property rights are not a matter of "fairness", they are a matter of power. Helen Clark has the power. She takes for her own purposes and fun what she things she can get away with [which is a LOT]. Mqurice

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