--- On Fri, 11/21/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] morality
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 5:30 PM
> On Nov 21, 2008, at 5:14 PM, turbulo at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Because exploitation is contrary to fundamental human
> nature. And it won't do to say that it can't be
> contrary because human beings do it (exploit one another).
> Certain things people do are consonant with what is
> fundamental about human beings, and certain things
> aren't. Our notions about human nature are also the
> basis for ethics (assuming we don't believe that
> morality is ordained by God). This is why all apologies for
> capitalism, as well as slavery and other forms of class
> society, are invariably based on some argument to the effect
> that the class hierarchy reflects natural differences in
> human capacities, and arguments against class society on
> arguments that it doesn't.
>
> Wow, fundamental human nature? Existing beyond time and
> space? How can you touch it?
>
> Doug
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