Re: The Ethics of Work...

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From: Dave Taylor
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1986 17:18

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This article is from opus!bellcore!ki4pv!tanner@hplabs.HP.COM
 and was received on Mon Aug 11 18:56:14 1986
 

) picuxa!warren indicates, as a final point, that a reason for doing
) an "evil" job is that we haven't achieved world peace, so someone
) must do it.

This overlooks the argument that we haven't achieved world peace
because someone \fBis\fR doing this kind of work.

One way to assure peace is to have reasonably unanimous rejection of
the alternative.  (cribbed)--> What if they gave a war, and no one
came?

[an interesting point... --Dave]

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Subject: Re: The Ethics of Work...
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