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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (163741)	6/6/2005 9:58:47 AM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 281500

If a man is out of step with the economy, maybe it is just that he is marching to a different conundrummer.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (163741)	6/6/2005 6:37:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<Like it or not you benefit from the loot of war as a member of the society and so it is only fair to contribute to the effort.> That's a weird approach to ethics. Democracy is a lowest common denominator political system. I don't have to lower myself to the scummy values of the losers in charge. I don't benefit from the gains by the beneficiaries of government. The benefits go to the pork-barrel supporters. Halliburton benefits from the loot of the Iraqi war. That doesn't mean some conscripted slave should be enthusiastic about being shot to ensure the loot flows to "society". Society isn't an amorphous whole from which everyone benefits. You can think of outright negro slavery/segregation as an example of a society in which not all members benefit, even if it is a democracy, which I realize you said is yet to be established - I don't understand that as majority rule is established all over the place. I suppose you are expanding the definition of democracy to mean something else apart from majority rule. Mqurice