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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)?
>Now, to clarify, I am not talking about basic reproductive biology here.
>I think we can all agree on THAT process.  What I want to know is where
>does this amorphous entity called "the individual" come from?
>Let's work this one over for awhile.

Let's not.  What you ask for is an answer to a meaningless rhetorical
question without using meaningless rhetoric.  No such beast.  Too much
political thought is wasted on amorphous, ambiguous, meaningless,
non-objective questions like this.

Biology is real.  The need for food is real.  The need for shelter
and protection is real.  The facts of history are real.  Political
ideologies are not.  Extrapolations of what the world would be like
under different political systems are not.

My personal political beliefs (Libertarianism) are, in my case, based
solely upon the evidence of my own senses, my own understanding of
history and my own conclusions about the best way to secure physical
food and shelter to biological humans.  If new evidence leads me to
a different conclusion, then so be it.  I am an ideologue only so far
as my ideology stands up to my own reasoning.  Political ideologies
based on anything but hard facts and reasoning are worthless.
-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker    | Free minds; free bodies; free trade.
leecr@microsoft.com   | Libertarian Party  1-800-682-1776