From: Mike McNally <m5@vail.tivoli.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:48:59 +0800
To: jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca
Subject: Re: A Libertine Question
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jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca wrote:

> tcmay@got.net 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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