17 / October
17 / October
Worth Repeating #76

"There is evidently a kind of thinking that rejoices in setting up a social objective which has no relation to the individual. Men are prepared to sacrifice their private dignity and happiness to an abstract social ideal, and without asking whether the social ideal produces the welfare of any individual man whatsoever. But this is absurd. The responsibility of men is for their own welfare and that of their neighbors; not for the hypothetical welfare of some fabulous creature called society."
--Twelve Southerners, I'll Take My Stand, 1930

posted at 01:06 AM
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George W. Bush:

Giving up on LOST?

Advocate for Open Borders?

Advocate for Illegal Immigration?

Defending foreigners before defending Americans?

Can you say "New World Order"??

1-20-09

Posted by: asdf on October 17, 2007 10:10 AM

Who is my "neighbor"?

Posted by: Ralph on October 17, 2007 11:56 AM

That is the key question. I seriously doubt anyone would disagree with what the quotation presents facially. No one conceives of "society" but through some extrapolation from his personal experience of individuals. Devotees of "social ideals" and "society" must always admit that their interests are reducible to the interests of particular individuals. The question is, always, who are those individuals?

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