Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > If a jailed criminal refuses to work I see no moral obligation to provide him > with food and health care. > > [Arlo] > Pirsig would disagree. Passively letting someone starve is no different than > actively pulling an executioners stick.
Don't think so. If the prisoner refuses to work and starves himself to death that is his choice, whereas to execute him is the state's choice. The latter is what Pirsig objected to, not "If you don't work you don't eat." > [Platt] > And IMHO a culture that measures value of life above liberty is a truly sick > culture. > > [Arlo] > Taxation to fund medical care for the poor is not valuing life above > "liberty", > any more than taxation to fund public parks is. > > The value of a human life is not measured by his pocketbook, regardless of the > spin you try to put on it. Taxation, an assault on man's pocketbook, is an assault on a man's liberty. Read about the American Revolution. "We pledge our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor. . . " Some values are higher than life itself, no matter how you try to run from them. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
