On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Trent Shipley<[email protected]> wrote:
> The people outside the boundary are not my responsibility. They are not > my people. Furthermore, they don't participate in my moral economy. > The status of the poor in my country has an immediate effect on me. I > may be among the poor, and if I am not I may have feelings for my fellow > countrymen, and even if I don't there is a real cost to tripping over > the hungry and homeless in the streets, and the crime associated with > extreme poverty. Poverty is a society wide expense. Then why isn't the relevant boundary much smaller -- city-sized? Certainly your interaction with most of 300 million people in the US is relatively small. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
