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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (3965)	5/29/2001 11:11:16 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Do you mean that in real life there are always more than two dimensions? I would say not always. There is one categorical imperative: "No one has the right to initiate force or fraud against another," or as Kant formulated it, "treat all humanity, including yourself, as an end in itself, never as a means only." Kant also said, "A moral law is universal, and it sometimes conflicts with self-interest." As a lawyer, I would say, "the law doesn't prohibit you from responding with force or fraud if someone else initiates it towards you or a third party." Which is how we justify the Great Game. "They started it." We haven't really wandered very far off topic, because we were always talking about the zero-sum game that politicians play called "Beggar Thy Neighbor." It's not a game that business people play but business is always conducted on the playing field that politicians construct. By "politicians" I include militarists, which are actually worthy of a category all their own.