RE: [pf] In the fight of our lives - suitable comment

At 18:33 20/7/2001 +0000, David A wrote {at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001III/msg00550.html , (shortly) } :-
>>Gary Barrett wrote about Milton Friedman's Social Security ...
>
>Wait a minute. When I wrote that Betsy was a hypocrite for living in a
very large house with only one other person, the bottom line response from
the list was, sure we're all hypocrites, now can't we move on? Is it only
the left who is allowed to be hypocritical? Why isn't Milton Friedmann just
as allowed to be a hypocrite as Betsy is?
>
>That gets to the larger point I was trying to make back then: it's not
good enough to say, sure, we're all hypocrites. Unless one comes
face-to-face with that hypocrisy, and recognizes that it exists in so much
of the rest of the world for exactly the same reasons that it exists in our
own lives, then there can't be much further progress in rearranging the
structure of society. And if you're not willing to make any significant
changes in that regard, then the likes of Milton Friedmann are immune from
criticism, too.
>
>David A.
>

· This is exactly the sort of discussion there _should_ be on this list, IMO.


David.
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