On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:17:40 UTC, Gunner
wrote:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stewart Mill

Gunner quoting, with seeming approval, a liberal (real, not american
definition) who tended towards socialism in his old age... what next?

Chris

Im a Liberal, (not American definition), so why would I not quote
Mills?

Well, because you seem more of a right-wing liberal (what a lot of
people call libertarian, although I think a better description of you
would be economically conservative/ socially liberal) whereas as dear
old JS was a left-wing liberal in most people's view (and a Utopian
Socialist from an economist's point of view) ; and because you spend
an inordinate amount of time slagging off liberals (I'm with you
there, Comrade! )

As to his lapse into an interest into socialism, senile dementia is
such a terrible thing in the elderly.

Given that his 'lapse' is recognisable in
_Principles_of_Political_Economy_ which was published when he was 43,
I doubt that senile dementia comes into it

Chris

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