[Arlo] > the "market" has no bones about the buying and > selling of human slaves
Actually, a voluntary market is the only kind of economic system in which a slave trade cannot exist, because (surprise!) slaves don’t volunteer. [Arlo] > The term "free market" is just political bullcrap…"Free market" is > a strawman. Quite the opposite. Defining “free market” only as an extreme or perfect system is trying to create a strawman. Economic systems can be seen along a spectrum from free market economies to command economies (fascism, socialism, communism). Free speech exists along a spectrum opposite thought control. Democracy exists along a spectrum opposite totalitarianism. Literal meaning exists along a spectrum opposite metaphorical meaning. Failing to see this, results in bad political philosophy or bad philosophy of language. [Krimel] > It is clearly the role of government to establish such rules in-so- > far as they reflect the will of the people. It is clearly your idea of the role of government, but not the best role. Government should allow for voluntary ecomomic transactions, worker-controlled economies, communes, etc., the will of the people be damned. [Krimel] > Is any degree of "voluntary" sufficient to qualify a transaction as > "moral"? Generally, voluntariness is not SUFFICIENT for an economic transaction to be moral, but it is NECESSARY. Craig 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/
