--- Eubulides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "No doubt, wherever the right of private property > exists, there must and > will be inequalities of fortune; and thus it > naturally happens that > parties negotiating about a contract are not equally > unhampered by > circumstances. This applies to all contracts, and > not merely to that > between employer and employee. Indeed, a little > reflection will show that > wherever the right of private property and the right > of free contract > coexist, each party when contracting is inevitably > more or less influenced > by the question whether he has much property, or > little, or none; for the > contract is made to the very end that each may gain > something that he > needs or desires more urgently than that which he > proposes to give in > exchange. And, since it is self-evident that, unless > all things are held > in common, some persons must have more property than > others, it is from > the nature of things impossible to uphold freedom of > contract and the > right of private property without at the same time > recognizing as > legitimate those inequalities of fortune that are > the necessary result of > the exercise of those rights. *****************************************************
By private/common property here, I assume the legal eagles are not speaking of one's socks or home, but of the tools of production and ownership of the Earth. It seems perfectly possible to my mind for one person to want to have five pairs of socks while the other is not satisfied with less than ten pairs. This does not cause unequal fortune. The cause of unequal fortune is the legalized robbery found in the contract between the employer and the employee. Regards, Mike B) ===== ***************************************************************** What we found in examining diaries, letters, autobiographies, pediatric and pedagogical literature back to antiquity was that good parenting appears to be something only historically achieved, and that the further one goes back into the past the more likely one would be to find children killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused by adults. Indeed, it soon appeared likely that a good mother, one who was reasonably devoted to her child and more or less able to empathize with and fulfill its needs, was nowhere to be found prior to modern times. It seemed to me that childhood was one long nightmare from which we have only gradually and only recently begun to awaken. LLOYD deMAUSE "Psychohistory and Psychotherapy," Foundations of Psychohistory 1992 http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
