[ExI] Belief in Market Efficiency

[samantha]

Olga Bourlin wrote:
> From: "hkhenson" <hkhenson at rogers.com>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:03 PM
> 
>> Equal rights under law is one thing, but if there is one thing we do 
>> know it is that people are *not* equal in other directions.
> 
> "Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men 
> that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, 
> government will of itself decay." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
> 

Or perhaps it is the vices of human beings that make governments much 
too dangerous.   A government is a honeypot of power and wealth drawing 
every scoundrel around and often corrupting even the honest.   Can we 
become good and wise by making it so easy to be evil on a large scale?

- samantha