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Date Posted: 11:43:02 07/18/00 Tue
Author: SwimmingUpstream
Subject: Aristotle vs Ayn Rand

THIS IS THE SECOND MESSAGE IN A THREAD, THE FIRST MESSAGE OF WHICH WAS DELETED BY THE PREVIOUS FORMAT'S SOFTWARE.

Dear Tony,

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my essays and to respond.

I'm not sure that a decent, humane personal liberty can exist at this point in human affairs with Money Systems.

For me a key, among several keys, is liberty of access to the natural goods that satisfy our natural needs. If the
word "just" has any humane meaning at all, and if Aristotle is correct that "just" means equality in some sense,
then equality of that needed liberty of access must form some of our notion of "just". (I hate the phrase "social
justice", for as de Jouvenal wrote that phrase always seems to mean some kind of social geometry, and not just
men acting justly.)

I have not been able to reconcile that equality of access to any form of Money System, and I've been trying to for 30
years. (Perhaps I am just dense.) If you can find some reconciliation between those two ideas I would love to read
your thoughts on that.

Thunderstorms are developing in this neck of the woods, so I will close now, and light some oil lamps in
preparation for the inevitable electrical failure.

Kindest Regards and Best Wishes

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