[pp.int.general] WHOA now - everyone, stop for a minute

[Max Moritz Sievers]

Andrew Norton wrote:
> Please people, add your party name, and position at the end of your email,
> and if you are NOT speaking on behalf of the party, make that clear there
> also. 

We speak mostly for ourselves. In the rare cases someone has an official 
statement from his party /this/ should be made clear.

| You bring into a union your whole power, your competence, and make yourself
| count; in a society you are employed, with your working power; in the former
| you live egoistically, in the latter humanly, that is, religiously, as
| a "member in the body of this Lord"; to a society you owe what you have, and
| are in duty bound to it, are -- possessed by "social duties"; a union you
| utilize, and give it up undutifully and unfaithfully when you see no way to
| use it further. If a society is more than you, then it is more to you than
| yourself; a union is only your instrument, or the sword with which you
| sharpen and increase your natural force; the union exists for you and
| through you, the society conversely lays claim to you for itself and exists
| even without you, in short, the society is sacred, the union your own;
| consumes you, you consume the union.
|
| Nevertheless people will not be backward with the objection that the
| agreement which has been concluded may again become burdensome to us and
| limit our freedom; they will say, we too would at last come to this,
| that "every one must sacrifice a part of his freedom for the sake of the
| generality." But the sacrifice would not be made for the "generality's" sake
| a bit, as little as I concluded the agreement for the "generality's" or even
| for any other man's sake; rather I came into it only for the sake of my own
| benefit, from selfishness. But, as regards the sacrificing, surely
| I "sacrifice" only that which does not stand in my power, that is,
| I "sacrifice" nothing at all.

-- Max Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own/My_Intercourse

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regards
Max Moritz Sievers
Member of PPDE