"The smoking ban wasn't needed if those with enough
faith in the market would allow it to do its job."
But wouldn't that be a violation of the principle of
the seperation of church and state?
I think we might call this "irrational exuberance"
about the market of a kind all it's own. A faith or
belief in a magical invisible force that allowed to
take control will make everything right.
Ah yes, "deus ex machina" social theory with a deified
"invisible market" allegedly supplying the power from
beyond if we will only surrender to it without
imposing any regulation all that is good and fine will
come to us.
I think without regulation from the "democratic mind
of many" the "invisible hand of the market" all too
easily crushes "the heart of family and compassion".
Not all human impulses are market driven or driveable
impulses-- at least if reason and rational thought are
taken into consideration.
David Strand
Loring Park
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