A Coldly Rationalist Individualist Can Deny That

We Can't Cure A Shortage By Increasing The Supply.

Indeed, Our Particular Concept Of Private Property, Which Deters Us From Exhausting The Positive Resources Of The Earth, Favors Pollution.

An Attack On Values Is Inevitably Seen As An Act Of Subversion.

The Social Arrangements That Produce Responsibility Are Arrangements That Create Coercion, Of Some Sort.

But It Is No Good Using The Tongs Of Reason To Pull The Fundamentalists' Chestnuts Out Of The Fire Of Contradiction. Their Real Troubles Lie Elsewhere.