> Platt, > Wow! was not expecting THAT. I 'm afraid you took my analogy too > literally. Hello Ron: > >Do you consider the dangers and warnings of cigarette smoke a scam? > >-Ron > > Platt: > I have no problem with warnings about the dangers of taking drugs of any > kind. However, I do object to being forced to enable stupid, self- > destructive behavior by paying for the health costs of individuals whose > subsequent illnesses are attributable to their drug habits. > > Ron: > But what if those drugs were marketed and sold as non-harmful. > what if the free market told you that any harmful effects of drugs > was a scam. What if they marketed drugs as what gives social > status and comfort. Drugs are your right to enjoy and use as you see > fit. > > You would'nt see that as peddling poison under the pretense of lies > for profit? > You woul'nt find them responsible for the deaths and poor health?
If a company knows that normal use of its product would make a user ill, it should be held liable. This is plain old common law. > I'm not saying joe tax payer, the corporations involved. Would'nt you > think > they are liable for the health of their consumers due to the use of > their > product marketed to them as unharmful? If the producer knew the product was harmful, yes. > Should'nt the free market industry likewise be held responsible ? > sure it cuts into profits but the maintenace of both your consumer > and your resources should be your primary concern if it wants to keep > producing profit. depleating both sources is suicide, how does one > enjoy their profit when eveything is destroyed and everyone is dead? > every parasite knows that to exploit a host it must maintain it's safety > and health. The best parasites being symbiotic. Don't follow you. Only governments can destroy everything. Free markets have created the highest standard of living ever known, thanks to permitting and encouraging responses to DQ -- the evolutionary force. Platt > ________________________________ > From: Platt Holden <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 3:11:33 PM > Subject: Re: [MD] global warming scam > > Hi Ron, > > > Hello Platt, > > I do not think anyone is disagreeing about the sucess of the free > market > > we ask, at what cost? herione is the most successful at making one > feel > > good but does it make sense to be a junkie? there are other ways to > feel > > good that are more labor intensive but in the long run it is more > > healthy > > and sustaining. > > I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. i.e., a free market.. > > > Do you consider the dangers and warnings of cigarette smoke a scam? > > -Ron > > I have no problem with warnings about the dangers of taking drugs of any > kind. However, I do object to being forced to enable stupid, self- > destructive behavior by paying for the health costs of individuals whose > subsequent illnesses are attributable to their drug habits. > > Platt > > ____________________________ > > From: Platt Holden <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:03:19 AM > > Subject: Re: [MD] global warming scam > > > > > > > [Platt] > > > > What's the point of exposing the global warming scam? Here's the > > > point: > > > > > > > > "As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel > > > obliged > > > > to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the > > market > > > > economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in > > > > communism. > > > > This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution > of > > > > mankind by a sort of cental (now global) planning." > > > > > > > > --- Czech President Vaclav Klaus > > > > > > > > Platt > > > > > > Aha, i see, So it's the Holy Market that is threatened by > > > environmentalism! > > > > > > I'm sorry, I didn't realize that caring for the environment was an > > insult > > > to > > > your religion. In the true sense of multiculturalism I will now shut > > up > > > and > > > let you and your fellow Market Worshipers go about letting the Market > > > destroy the thing it's feeding of. > > > > Am I correct then in believing you disagree with the MOQ? > > > > "The Metaphysics of Quality says the free market makes everybody > richer-by > > preventing static economic patterns from setting in and stagnating > > economic > > growth. That is the reason the major capitalist economies of the world > > have > > done so much better since World War II than the major socialist > > economies." > > (Lila, 17) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
