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- From: david@mail.sas.upenn.edu (R. David Murray)
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- Subject: Re: Time Warner stock
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:53:49 GMT
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- In article <BRENDAN.92Jul22114846@betty.cs.widener.edu>, brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
- > Was the decision to sell the stock in Time Warner owned by
- > Philadelphia's municipal pension fund a good one? (They voted
- > yesterday to sell $1.6M in Time Warner stock because of Ice-T's album
- > "Body Count", which has the song "Cop Killer" on it.) What sort of
- > precedent does it set? I'm afraid that other similar groups will
- > start to use the "objectionable" watermark as their metric for whom
- > they should and should not fund. Was it wise?
-
- It is always moral to only fund with your money those activities which you
- think are moral, just as it is moral to support with other actions only
- those activities which you think are moral. Thus does a free market
- society express its aggregate morality.
-
- On the other hand, the real owners of the resources involved are the
- pensionees, and I don't think they have the option of moving their money
- elsewhere if they in turn object to the actions of the pension fund managers.
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- Of course, they could always stop working for the government . . .
-