On 8/31/2012 8:23 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Friday, August 31, 2012 12:30:30 AM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Hi Craig,
They never state it explicitly, but it is the logical
implication of their arguments. "We should pay teachers more and
useless businessmen less" implies all are paid the same regardless
of skill, no? "We should stop paying private contractors so much
to imprison more and more people on meaningless drug charges"
implies? Most people simply don't try to explain their ideologies
to themselves or others, whether libertarian, republican,
progressive or whatever, they are simply not curious to know.
It's only the logical implication of their arguments if your logic is
that there must be some reason why they are wrong to begin with.
Paying teaches more (than they are paid now
http://www.teachersalaryinfo.com/teacher-salary-data.html) and useless
businessmen less (than they are paid now
http://current.com/green/89118297_fortune-500-ceos-relative-to-the-average-wage-in-the-united-states.htm)
has nothing to do with all people or skill. It has only to do with
executives making more and more money without contributing positively
to anything outside of their own interests. Not imprisoning people for
no reason implies nothing other than it is a terrible idea to allow
people to make imprisoning people a for-profit enterprise.
Craig
ACK! I do not ever wish to get into this briar-patch! We could
endlessly site particular studies of particular circumstances, but I
thought that we where considering big picture concepts. My mistake. My
opinion is that whatever the particular intensions might be, we can
judge by the results whether or not a policy is worth keeping. Our
current system is obviously imperfect, but is perfection even possible?
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Onward!
Stephen
http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html
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