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“Yea,” Antipater will say, “but you are, as you
must admit, if you will only bethink you of the
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bonds of fellowship forged by Nature and existing
between man and man.”
“I do not forget them,” the other will reply;
“but do you mean to say that those bonds of fellowship are such that there is no such thing as private
property? If that is the case, we should not
sell anything at all, but freely give everything
away.”
13. In this whole discussion, you see, no one
says, “However wrong morally this or that may be,
still, since it is expedient, I will do it”; but the one
side asserts that a given act is expedient, without
being morally wrong, while the other insists that
the act should not be done, because it is morally
wrong.
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