jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca wrote:
tcmay@got.net wrote:
Who takes responsibility when people fail to save enough of their paycheck to last them through the month? Who takes responsibility when people drink too much, miss work, and are fired? And so on.
One common thread in many of these discussions is the ease with which moral judgements are made about the situation: "fail to save", "drink too much".
Uhh, "fail to save" isn't a moral judgement; it's an observable phenomenon. Either somebody does save money or they don't. I don't see in Tim's wording any judgement being made. It's a numerical thing. If you replace "drink too much," with "drink enough that they", you get another observable phenomenon. ______c_____________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being, m5@tivoli.com * m101@io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.