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Re: not sure what to call this
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Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:53:07 GMT
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> The free market system may not be perfect in every way
I agree.
> but there is no utopia possible
I agree.
> there is no better system possible.
I don't agree. Not that I have to offer a better system, but how can you
prove it's impossible?
> No other system can maximise happiness and freedom.
I agree on freedom, but then, isn't there also a price others in the world
have to pay for our freedom? If so, wouldn't it be fair to seek a way where
maybe not everybody enjoys every thinkable form of freedom, if that helps to
be fair to all people on earth? Again, I cannot offer a solution, I just
think if we rule out any such solution, then we might eventually find
ourselves in a war of cultures that emerged from today's terrorism.
As for the happiness part, I can only think that you are talking "pursuit of
happiness". Otherwise, how can you explain the suicide rates and drug
consumption all over the western world? I can hardly see those as
expressions of actual happiness, rather they are the opposite. So, even
though everybody has the right to TRY and be happy, our system seems
inappropriate for certain people's success in that area. I refuse to see
this as only their fault all the time. Again, I cannot offer a solution, I
just think if we rule out any such solution, then we might eventually find
ourselves in a war of social classes that emerged from today's lower class
district criminality.
:wq
Horst
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| Hmm... not sure if you are referring to whence resource property rights, or is it the luck factor that you are wondering about. (...) Chris has alluded to this problem in the past. Asserting labor mixin as a mechanism to getting title to previously (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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