I'm sorry thisis not a question of virtue but rights On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:12 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:04 AM, William Conger <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > ...The Founding Fathers valued > > Virtue as the highest good. For them it meant self-deprecation and > > service for > > the greater good: putting the other fellow's need above self-interest. > > Some > > actually tried to follow that principle and they certainly framed a > > Constitution > > that aimed at embodying it. > > > > > Concerning virtue, the economic gap between the Founding Fathers and the > poorest person in their society was probably miniscule compared to the > economic gulf of gulfs that exist now between today's billionaires and just > the average American citizen. > > Considering that the stakes today are so much higher than they were in the > past, wouldn't today's billionaires probably agree with the following?: > > - Virtue can be afforded only by the poor, who have nothing to lose. > > Alexander Chase > > -- S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 St NYC, NY 10011 [email protected]
