| | Good retort, Dean.
You bring up a great point about context. However, the basic and underlying nature of things doesn't change. The opposite of productive work, for instance, is that of not producing anything -- which means death for all of humanity. The reason that it means death for all of humanity is because humans are different from animals. Animals survive by adapting to their environment and by mooching and looting and killing and fighting, etc. It is in their nature to survive in that way.
Man has a different nature and needs to act differently than that in order to survive (i.e., in order to continue to be able to act in this world). Man has to jealously defend his right to own the product of his efforts (a point which your retort makes clear). Because there are some men on this planet who have chosen to think and to act like they are animals.
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 3/10, 8:42am)
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The highest moral act anyone can do is productive work.
