tcs@USC-ECL.ARPA (08/10/86)
While I agree with many of his positions, Keith Lynch's contention that Society does not exist is a pedantic Libertarian fiction. It is quite simple to define a society to be some group of people and...presto! Society exists using that defintion, within the context of that discussion. Defining a social entity can be analytically useful. If one then wants to say that this entity as defined should not/cannot/must not do "x", fine, then that is an assertion of viewpoint, or a hypothesis that can be teseted against fact. To say that Society doesn't exist is just silly. TCS ------- -------