From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Mon Jan 11 1999 - 10:43:01 MST
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From: Dick.Gray@bull.com <Dick.Gray@bull.com>
To: extropians@maxwell.kumo.com <extropians@maxwell.kumo.com>
Date: 11 January 1999 17:33
Subject: Property and life
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>Samael makes a puzzling comment:
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>>I just believe there are greater goods than property protection
>>(life protection, for instance).
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>Are you saying that your life is not your property?
I don't think of my life as an object. It's a feature of mine a 'property'
in the same way as 'dark hair' is. It's just a feature I've grown very fond
of.
>You can't divorce your life from the resources that make your life
>possible. It's nonsense to write as if property weren't part and parcel of
>your existence.
There are things I use during my existence and things I 'own'. My life is
of a different quality of any of them and could continue (at least
temporarily) without any of them.
>Since property includes life itself, there can be no higher good than
>protection of property.
Since carbon compunds include life itself, there van be no higher good than
the protection of carbon compunds.
I don't think you're stringing together a coherent argument here.
Samael
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