Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-lymph!arndt From: arndt@lymph.DEC Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: If you didn't like "aggreate" try "permissive". Message-ID: <177@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 15:11:11 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.177 Posted: Sat Dec 8 15:11:11 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:38:27 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 22 To. Russ Herman Permissive as in "permissive society". George Cook writing on comparative ethics in the ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, has observed: "As every stable society has a code which 'bids men do this and not do that', it follows that you cannot have a 'permissive society.' The two words 'permissive' and 'society' are contradictory. The Oxford Dictionary defines 'permissive' as 'each individual free to do what he likes.' 'Society' is defined as 'the customs and organization of a civilised nation.' Obviously, we cannot have 'customs and organization if each individual 'does what he likes.' The above is from: THE POLITICS OF PORNOGRAPHY, by Rousas J. Rushdoony,1974,p115This is a neat little book all by itself. See others by him. Of course let's not go too far and let the meaning of words get in the way of our slogans. Or our cherished beliefs. Keep chargin' Ken Arndt