[311] in libertarians
Re: Someone really did make a complaint "MIT policy is harassment itself"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Thu Oct 13 17:01:52 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 16:56:52 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [Re: Someone really did make a complaint "MIT policy is harassment itself"] as of Oct 13, 14:32
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich), safe@MIT.EDU, sethf@MIT.EDU
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
| > and to recognize that with rights come
| >responsibilities. The balancing of interests inevitably leads to
| >constraints on individuals; such, often, is the nature of social
| >contracts.
[...]
| Clearly, the local context, of responsibility paired to rights, appeals
| to the popular sense that people should be accountable for their actions,
| i.e. free to choose but held responsible for the consequences. This gives
| the phrasing its "common sense" appeal. The larger context of the section,
| however, shows the word is used in its entirely different connotation,
| imputing obligation. Read that way, the section says that rights, of all
| things, make us debtors to the rest of society.
Could you show some more of the surrounding material so we can see the
"larger context"?
- Kevin
