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

[Alonso Pombo]

IN FAVOR

- ON MY BEHALF

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Max Moritz Sievers <
m.sievers at piratenpartei-hessen.de> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> regards
> Max Moritz Sievers
> Member of PPDE
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-- 
Alonso Pombo
CASA PELLAS S.A.
Innovacion
(505) 484-9141
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