Arlo, DMB, agreed, Both of your responses are disagreeing with the neo-con misrepresentations of values within (and around) a free market, not with the simple statement itself (which was itself a paraphrase of an earlier statement (as I said).
The dishonesty is in how people choose to interpret "free".... "setting up strawmen to demonize an enemy" as Arlo put it. Ian On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote: > [DMB] > It's not even true, let alone plain and clear. > > [Arlo] > Not to mention dishonest. I'm not sure if anyone here, short of perhaps Micah > the Anarchist, actually wants a wholly unregulated market. Like their ragings > against "PC" and "taxation", it is simply a strawman set up to demonize the > "enemy" (in this case, those horrible "libs"). > > As I said in previous posts, the "market" has no bones about the buying and > selling of human slaves, of distribution heroin or child pornography. In > contexts where certain groups of people are considered "property", the > "market" > has no qualms whatsoever about offering them as merchandise. > > Even "copyright" is a regulation on the "market", by restricting the goods > that I can bring and sell based on whether or not the "State" recognizes the > intellectual ownership behind its production to someone else. Another example > would be the buying and selling of poisonous animals, which is, in fact, > regulated. Taken to an extreme, but valid, is the regulations prohibiting the > open distribution of WMDs. There is a reason you can't walk into your local > gunshop and by a surface-to-air rocket launcher capable of taking down an > airplane. > > > > 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/ > 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/
