[lbo-talk] Re: what's permissible

H. Curtiss Leung hncl at panix.com
Tue Apr 8 06:07:39 PDT 2003


I'd agree with this. I'd also say that an affirmative answer to the question is a ploy to obscure discussions of means where a variety of them exist for a given end generally considered desirable. None dare call it ideology?


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> Is the whole question "do the ends justify the means" on too high a
> level of abstaction? I tend to be suspicious of anyone who thinks the
> question, so phrased, is answerable. Don't you have to specify what end
> and what means, or at least particular classes of ends and means before
> the discussion becomes meaningful? Or is that too simplistic?
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