Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!orion!houca!hogpc!houxm!houxa!fdf From: fdf@houxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Individual Rights and Morality Message-ID: <212@houxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 16:39:41 EDT Article-I.D.: houxa.212 Posted: Fri Jun 24 16:39:41 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jun-83 04:38:40 EDT Lines: 11 I have enjoyed reading the quasi-libertarian viewpoints of Mr. Craver, but I'm very confused as to his objection to government based on some altruistic moral standard; i. e., the 'common good'. It's possible that I'm missing something, but isn't a belief in the supremacy of individual rights just a belief in a different altruistic moral standard? If liberals (shame, shame - I'm one) are supposed to find a basis for their government other that the 'common good', then a libertarian or laissez-fairian should have some basis other than individual freedom. Both of those concepts are moral ones, and both may be totally inappropriate in some societies.