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ja...@inmet.uucp

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Mar 15, 1986, 11:35:00 PM3/15/86
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[Ronald Dworkin, quoted by Richard Carnes]
>.... In either case, he chooses a mixed economic system --
>either redistributive capitalism or limited socialism -- not in order
>to compromise antagonistic ideals of efficiency and equality, but to
>achieve the best practical realization of the demands of equality
>itself. ...

So, efficiency is not even a consideration: equality (of distri-
bution) is all. It doesn't matter how much each citizen gets,
provided they all get the *same*.

A system that produces *nothing* will automatically be best then:
you can only divide zero into equal parts.

What Dworkin should favor is not "mixed economy", but total an-
nihilation: *life* itself is a good that is always *unequally*
distributed, both in duration and intensity. Death makes equal.

Not even Egalite ou la Mort - Egalite *et* la Mort should be the
motto of a Dworkin "liberal". (Assuming he could be consistent).

Jan Wasilewsky

Baba ROM DOS

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Mar 23, 1986, 7:08:47 PM3/23/86
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In article <28200740@inmet> ja...@inmet.UUCP writes:
>[Ronald Dworkin, quoted by Richard Carnes]
>>.... In either case, he chooses a mixed economic system --
>>either redistributive capitalism or limited socialism -- not in order
>>to compromise antagonistic ideals of efficiency and equality, but to
>>achieve the best practical realization of the demands of equality
>>itself. ...
>
>So, efficiency is not even a consideration: equality (of distri-
>bution) is all. It doesn't matter how much each citizen gets,
>provided they all get the *same*.

Easy, big fella! In context, it seemed to me to mean not that
"efficiency is not even a consideration", but that the application
of the alleged liberal ideal should of itself preclude brute
redistributionism, even without considerations of efficiency.

>A system that produces *nothing* will automatically be best then:
>you can only divide zero into equal parts.
>
>What Dworkin should favor is not "mixed economy", but total an-
>nihilation: *life* itself is a good that is always *unequally*
>distributed, both in duration and intensity. Death makes equal.

Yes, Jan. And hate makes blind.

Baba

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