[ExI] Islamic culture (current) was Religions and violence

samantha sjatkins at mac.com
Mon Aug 2 23:15:57 UTC 2010


Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
>  - Laisses-faire capitalism
>
> "In Britain, in 1843, the newspaper The Economist was founded, and became 
> an influential voice for laissez-faire capitalism.[10] In response to the 
> Irish famine of 1846-1849, in which over 1.5 million people died of 
> starvation, they argued that for the government to supply free food for 
> the Irish would violate natural law."
>   

They were quite correct.  Private people were free to donate as much 
food as they wished.  As they were the ones who owned the food and/or 
money to procure it in the first place any other arrangement would have 
involved taking from them again their will and thus would have been immoral.

- samantha



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