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Re: A Libertine Question
[email protected] wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> >Who takes responsibility when people fail to save enough of their
> >paycheck to last them through the month? Who takes responsibility when
> >people drink too much, miss work, and are fired? And so on.
>
> One common thread in many of these discussions is the ease with which moral
> judgements are made about the situation: "fail to save", "drink too much".
Uhh, "fail to save" isn't a moral judgement; it's an observable
phenomenon. Either somebody does save money or they don't. I
don't see in Tim's wording any judgement being made. It's a
numerical thing.
If you replace "drink too much," with "drink enough that they", you
get another observable phenomenon.
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