A woman who competed in a radio station's Nintendo Wii contest to see
how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of
water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday. Well. One
more reason to quote what Iain M. Banks thinks about the "market":
The market is a good example of evolution in action; the
try-everything-and-see-what-works approach. This might provide a
perfectly morally satisfactory resource-management system so long as
there was absolutely no question of any sentient creature ever being
treated purely as one of those resources. The market, for all its
(profoundly inelegant) complexities, remains a crude and essentially
blind system, and is - without the sort of drastic amendments liable
to cripple the economic efficacy which is its greatest claimed asset
- intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between simple non-use of
matter resulting from processal superfluity and the acute, prolonged
and wide-spread suffering of conscious beings.
<http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/13/water.intox.ap/index.html>Link, Wee/Wii
<http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~stefan/culture.html>Link, I. M. Banks
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