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Re: Objectivist morals

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Constantine K. Christakos)
Fri Apr 20 14:28:21 2001

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:27:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Constantine K. Christakos" <dean@MIT.EDU>
To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Sourav K. Mandal wrote:

> Feel free to whip out your wallet and pay them.  The free market is
> about not _making_ the rest of us do that, e.g. through taxes.

You will, of course, remember that I was refering to the Harvard Live-In
wage protests, and the students _do_ whip out their wallets and pay for
innumerable Deans, enforcer RAs, etc., etc., etc., and decided they'd
prefer that their tuition go also towards paying the other support-staff
more.

-Dean

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