So, to come back to the initial question: when it comes to protecting one's
'self' though harming others, what unit of geographic area makes such
protection, at any cost, presumably, legitimate?

You see the problem. If this isn't specified and then applied universally,
then we are left with the situation where mere greed and self-seeking are
morally legitimate.

Lawry



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Subject: RE: [Futurework] Re: defining groups

> Well, OK, "geographic area". So how do you define a "geographic area"?
> How large? How bounded?

A federalist nation-state perhaps?  Depending on personal preferences (or
"format" ;-) ), one can emphasize the communal, cantonal or national level
for "activity" (of course the global level too, but here the formal means
are rather limited due to a lack of global state structures).

Chris




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