>
>>It's self-defeating: treating people equally materially is not treating
>>the
>>equally, because it ignores the ways in which they are individual.--jks
>
>That seems sophistical to me. Take Edward Bellamy, for instance. His
>argument in Looking Backward was that society could ensure that its
>citizens
>would be able to develop their individuality to the fullest *only* by
>according them equal income. Each citizen would be free to spend his or
>her
>discretionary income on whatever best served that individual's intellect
>and
>appetites. I fail to see how anyone would be unjustly deprived under such
>a
>scheme.
>
>Carl
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