janw@inmet.UUCP (03/16/86)
[Ronald Dworkin, quoted by Richard Carnes] >.... In either case, he chooses a mixed economic system -- >either redistributive capitalism or limited socialism -- not in order >to compromise antagonistic ideals of efficiency and equality, but to >achieve the best practical realization of the demands of equality >itself. ... So, efficiency is not even a consideration: equality (of distri- bution) is all. It doesn't matter how much each citizen gets, provided they all get the *same*. A system that produces *nothing* will automatically be best then: you can only divide zero into equal parts. What Dworkin should favor is not "mixed economy", but total an- nihilation: *life* itself is a good that is always *unequally* distributed, both in duration and intensity. Death makes equal. Not even Egalite ou la Mort - Egalite *et* la Mort should be the motto of a Dworkin "liberal". (Assuming he could be consistent). Jan Wasilewsky
baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) (03/24/86)
In article <28200740@inmet> janw@inmet.UUCP writes: >[Ronald Dworkin, quoted by Richard Carnes] >>.... In either case, he chooses a mixed economic system -- >>either redistributive capitalism or limited socialism -- not in order >>to compromise antagonistic ideals of efficiency and equality, but to >>achieve the best practical realization of the demands of equality >>itself. ... > >So, efficiency is not even a consideration: equality (of distri- >bution) is all. It doesn't matter how much each citizen gets, >provided they all get the *same*. Easy, big fella! In context, it seemed to me to mean not that "efficiency is not even a consideration", but that the application of the alleged liberal ideal should of itself preclude brute redistributionism, even without considerations of efficiency. >A system that produces *nothing* will automatically be best then: >you can only divide zero into equal parts. > >What Dworkin should favor is not "mixed economy", but total an- >nihilation: *life* itself is a good that is always *unequally* >distributed, both in duration and intensity. Death makes equal. Yes, Jan. And hate makes blind. Baba