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Article #98Re: "Ecofascists" In Action
From: Michael Smith
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:20
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:20
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>DATE: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 09:59:53 GMT >FROM: Brian K. Yoder <brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us> > ... I am of the opinion that destroying the >property of others is wrong. Do you see a problem with that? > >--Brian > Surely the only rational answer is, it depends: whose property, and what is it being used for. No one would deny, for example, that destroying the private property of the German railways taking people to Auschwitz would have been a very good thing to do. Cases that are controversial generally turn out to depend on what you think of the underlying activity. As always, close examination will reveal that absolutely nobody really gives a hang about comprehensive, abstract principles (like "private property"). Appeals to such principles are mere rhetoric.
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Newsgroups: ca.environment Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!psinntp!wrldlnk!usenet From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com> Subject: Re: "Ecofascists" In Action In-Reply-To: <BurqFx.2GH@quake.sylmar.ca.us> Message-ID: <2926876536.0.p00004@psilink.com> Sender: usenet@worldlink.com Nntp-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Organization: Performance Systems Int'l Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:20:50 GMT X-Mailer: PSILink (3.2) Lines: 18