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Re: One Simple Question for the Libertarians...

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From: Dave Griffith
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 22:26
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In article <1993Jan4.201735.18614@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes:
>One simple question.  No embelishments, no rhetoric.  I just want a
>clear, concise answer to this question:
>
>Where does individualism come from (and as a corrolary, where do
>individuals come from)?
>

If there is any more obviously religious and unanswerable question, I've yet
to hear it.  You're likely to get any number of answers, none of them anywhere
near verifiable, and most of them retreads of various philosophical arguments
centuries old.   Why ask this question of libertarians in particular, by 
the way?  Surely one needn't believe in the primacy of the individual to have
opinions on where they came from.

If the above hasn't made it clear, calling this a "simple" question is
either foolish or dishonest.

-- 
Dave Griffith, Information Resources, University of Chicago,
Department of Surgery                       dave@alex.bsd.uchicago.edu
A man's best friend is his dogma.
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