At 06:19 PM 7/29/96 EST, jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca wrote:

I suggest that it is more economical to provide for a minimum quality of life- if only as a form of insurance for myself. Think: Rawls.

The alternative is to have garbage collectors to "take care of" those that fall behind. Think: Soylent Green.

Better twisted than bitter, as Tiny Tim Cratchet used to say.

James

But many of us believe that coercive "solutions" to life's problems whether right or wrong are no longer possible because technology is in the process of making individuals and small groups "ungovernable" by force. If this is true, whatever the morality of coercive solutions, they will not be able to be applied to the real world. Thus if we designed the Internet (Ver.6) rather than Louis Freeh, his opinion of our design is meaningless. Perhaps the communitarians in the audience will have to fall back on disfellowship as the ultimate sanction (like the early Christians). They won't be able to apply any more advanced weaponry. DCF