"Tor Forde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote:
>The problem about throwing money to everybody without expecting
>anything in return, is that this will throw some people into
>isolation. Society ought among other things to be moral relationships
>in which everybody is included. And to throw money at people do not
>include them in some kind of moral relationship. But everybody should
>be included, and of course that means poor people too.
That's an interesting point, and I can see why you might think that,
but I wonder if it must necessarily be so. Without the time consumed
by either being employed or seeking employment, I wonder if there might
be a flowering of social activity, a great increase in volunteer
work etc. In the days before the middle class felt it necessary to
have two incomes to sustain their lifestyle, neighbourhood communities
were tied together by the connections forged by housewives. People
are naturally gregarious, and will automatically network if given the
opportunity. On the other hand, it seems to me that there are
possibilities for "moral relationships" that don't involve a simple
quid pro quo, though I can't formulate a lucid example at the moment.
-Pete Vincent
