From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 23:21:36 MDT
> On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 11:19, Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> > Do individual rights come before the common good?
> >
> > I would argue yes.
>
>
> And some would say that individual rights *are* the common good.
>
> -James Rogers
I would suggest that individual rights *achieve* the common good
in the long run, and that failure to observe them leads away from
the common good (in the long run).
Lee Corbin
P.S. J. M. "in the long run we are all dead" Keynes was wrong,
though he was right about his own case.
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