[ExI] Don't be evil

[Thirdeye Of Eris]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> Dan wrote:
>
>  Even were that so, that would not be "Capitalism" making choices. It would
>> be people acting in a market making choices. This is sort of like saying
>> Science runs experiments or has debates. The truth is people run experiments
>> and debate about the data or theory.
>>  And this brings up a more general point. It's not markets that do things.
>> It's people. People act and when they interact voluntarily, markets are what
>> we might see
>>
>
> Jesus Christ! What are you trying to do, start a flame war?
> Unregulated voluntary economic interactions are precisely what
> has led to this worldwide condition so objectionable to so many
> people. (In Germany, it is known as "American conditions".)
> Of course, we don't see suggestions here to outright replace
> it with socialism, or with anything.
>
> But *something* has to be better than unregulated voluntary
> economic exchanges between individuals!  :-)  That's so evil.
>
> Lee
>
>
Personally, I don't think that any system of governance can fix anything
unless the people under it decide to fix something...



>
>  -- though markets are hardly the only form of voluntary interaction. When
>> they interact involuntarily -- i.e., coercively -- what we see is statism or
>> some form of one person or group abusing another person or group.
>>  Regards,
>>  Dan
>>
>
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and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the
acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to
shift blame, share blame, distribute blame... as blame, guilt,
responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and
nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his
evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world... aware
that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge
of self-failure."

               -- Professor De La Paz from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by
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