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Subject: Re: Re: Libertarianism
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Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 02:29:00 EST
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/***** ea:net.philosophy / aesat!rwh /  6:29 pm  Nov 26, 1984 */
>Society is an aggregate of individuals, bound together by trade,
>by the basic need for social intercourse, by shared goals and interests.
>                                       J. Bashinski
>                                       ...ucbvax!bashinsk%ucbcory

Aha! Now I know why I have trouble talking to Libertarians. The society I
(want to) belong to is bound together by the mutual concern for its own
welfare and that of the individuals composing it.
-- 
  ______			Russ Herman
/* ---------- */

I don't think it does, unless it's just a matter of viewpont.  Mutual
concern for the welfare of the individual members of society sounds like
"shared goals" to me. The welfare of society, on the other hand, is a
redundancy. Since society is an aggregate of individuals, the "welfare of
society" doesn't make much sense in any form but "the welfare of the
individuals composing it."