Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Re: Libertarianism Message-ID: <9800041@ea.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 02:29:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.9800041 Posted: Sat Dec 1 02:29:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:05:42 EST References: <280@aesat.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:aesat:-28000:ea:9800041:000:958 Nf-From: ea!mwm Dec 1 01:29:00 1984 /***** 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."