Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:31:29 -0500 From: "M.A. Johnson" <michaelj-AT-america.net> Subject: Re: LibCapitalism, Enemy of Rationality <snip> MJ My apologies, I assumed the audience had a grasp for the obvious. What do you imagine a 'non-involved' third party to entail? In your definition (quoted from the current dictionary with all its warts), what is it you imagine is the opposite of the root 'private' in the phrase "production and distribution are privately ... ". Rather than donning robes and proclaiming your delusions for all to see ... why not ASK when you fail to understand? Barton Well, the joke's on me, it seems. I thought (that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it) that I was communicating with a naive young person of the humym persuasion. But it's now obvious that, all along, I've been suckered into responding to the random output of an artificial stupidity program. Man, is my face red... MJ Wow! Not only fallacy ... but projection. Just damn. Scared to admit your error ... or merely clinging vehemently to delusion? Regard$, --MJ The fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism. Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil. Man is reduced to a series of social relationships, and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decisions disappears. - Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus
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