#MacWorks for the Amiga
11-Jan-86 15:55:31
Sb: #4778-#MacWorks for the Amiga
Fm: P. OLIVER 70145,1012
To: Larry Phillips/ICUG 74025,636
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Oh, you mean if you choose to write software and give it to say Khadaffy for
use in terrorism, that is rational and moral? (After all, if you *want* to do
it, it's moral, according to your argument.)
You seem to be implying something I already answered. Morality does not equal
government force, or force at all, in the sense that "if you do this immoral
action, God (or "society") will use force against you." That is NOT my code
of morality. Only immoral actions that involve the use of force against
innocent persons is te domain of the government or personal self-defense.
What I am arguing against is the morality of altruism, which says that it is
evil to do anything for one's one self-interest, and as a consequence (one
consequence) that making money from software is evil.