Nick said:In a civil society, dmb, the free market includes the exchange of intellectual ideas. Nobody forces you to talk and think. It is about non-coercive economic and intellectual exchange. Anything else is an advocation for initiation of physical coercion and is anti-liberty.
dmb says: Nick, I think your views are entirely bogus and only serve as a time-wasting distraction. Try walking out of the bookstore without paying for the book and you'll quickly discover the government's monopoly on legitimate violence. You'll be forced to lay on the ground at gunpoint, handcuffed and carted off to jail. Is that what you mean by non-coercive economic and intellectual exchange? Haven't you ever heard the saying that property is nine tenths of the law? That means, my paranoid friend, that 90% of the laws protect stuff, not people. That means, my ignorant friend, that the cops and armies work for property owners. They serve the rights of property, not human rights. Is overt violence the only form of coercion you find objectionable? What if a person is forced by other pressures like starvation, sickness, or fear of humiliation? What about the other forms of power in our society? The largest corporations, for example, have more guns and more money than many countries. Since we also depend on them for employment and the economy's overall health, they wield far more direct power over our day to day lives than does government. Adam Smith himself would be horrified at the unchecked power of corporations of today. And, as if one could fail to notice, the current economic meltdown is the result of free-market deregulation. If you want to join one of those right-wing militia units I'm sure they'd be glad to have you and you'll find that every ear is sympathetic to your paranoid delusions. Better keep that Hallmark style poetry to yourself, however, if you want to avoid physical coercion. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 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/
