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To: Hank Kerchief; Alamo-Girl; Phaedrus; unspun; PatrickHenry
...a strict individualist is self-sufficient and never uses coercion against anyone else. Tell me how that leads to personal and social disorder.

Because the concept isn't capacious enough to describe human existence. Your definition seems to hold that self-sufficiency and nonagression are the prime characteristics of human being.

Well. Anyone with eyes can tell you, this is hardly the case in practical reality.

And then, you and I both complain when these exemplary and hoped-for conditions do not hold. As they quite usually do not, these days.

Hank, there's more I'd like to say here, but I really do have to go make dinner now. But I'll be back.

172 posted on 09/30/2003 5:44:12 PM PDT by betty boop (God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
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To: betty boop
Hank, there's more I'd like to say ...

I won't respond until you've had a chance to provide your whole answer. Remember, the question is how the self-sufficient individualist who never uses coercion against another is the cause of personal and social disorder. (By the way, Jesus and Paul [after his conversion] were both self-sufficient individualists who never used coercion against anyone, [those trouble-makers].

Enjoy your supper. (I'm in New England, the evenin' meal is always suppa'.) Hank

175 posted on 09/30/2003 6:09:22 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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