Re: Political Philosophy - inheritance tax

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I ought to qualify my use of natural. I haven't come across it academically 
(not fully anyway), and i just use it to mean, fixed, factual, unalterable 
- truly a fact of life. In this way, inheritence is not 'natural', because 
we could change it.(Could someone has read something on 'natural' let me 
know what it really means!?).

Peter argues that in the course of evolution, inheritence occurs and is 
thus natural and therefore justified. But lots of things 'occur', including 
genocide and rape. Hopefully it is obvious that this is a valid and true 
reductio.

Daniel


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