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To: AmericanInTokyo
Easy with throwing the words around. "Socialism" is an economic term, my friend. Morality is not Economy or the Means of Production, it is creating the parameters of a Clean Society versus (perhaps) your view of chaos and unrestrained evil.

Well to the dedicated social engineer, the distinction between economics and any other parameter of life is not significantly meaningful.

To the economist, economics is the means of human interaction.

People who try to enforce "socially redeeming" are social engineers engaged in restricting human interaction -- economics writ large.

Your distinction is, hence, largely arbitrary. "Socially redeeming" is a phrase of socialistic intent whether you like it or not.

35 posted on 04/16/2002 7:56:53 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan
Every single one of us who stops for a red traffic light, is complicent in 'social engineering'.
39 posted on 04/16/2002 7:59:13 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: jlogajan
....except perhaps for the free floating bohemian souls and other libertarians who subjectively decide to stop or go at an intersection based on their inner voice of freedom, forbid any dependence on group management of the prevailing social order
42 posted on 04/16/2002 8:00:47 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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