>>> We know Obama does bad things because Congress makes him >>> do bad things. > > Raghu: >> I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. > > Obama and Congress are part of the same culture that Raghu refers to. > -- > Jim Devine
I am afraid Pen-L has no sense of humor. Humor has always been a problem for email so it seems. The title of the thread that says evil is too expensive is supposed to be a joke, delivered in sarcasm and derision. On a previous thread, I wrote a completely facetious answer to the question what is human life worth. My answer was a fake economic formula for a total amount of earned income, plus or minus whatever capital was accumulated or spent, over the working life. Julio Huato took me seriously (or more likely pretended to), and delivered a humanist philosophy answer that life was worth what we did with it. I certainly agree, which was the basis of the joke that economics can account for human worth, civic virtue, and moral rectitude. Then I read this quick little news piece about Obama using a budget argument to close Gitmo. Nevermind it was created by fiat and funded somewhere in the military budget, where the President can control its purpose, development, and costs as commander and chief. It is ridiculous to blame Congress for keeping Guantanamo open and ridiculous to keep people there who are free of even manufactured charges... ``A budget is a moral document. I'm surprised that progressive economists are running down people who talk about the financial cost of evil.'' Robert Naiman Oh dear what a muddle. Economic cost is a perfectly good reason? Okay let me take this idea seriously since humor has failed. Does anybody who believes the above assertion understand the fundamental assumption this idea is based on? The assumption is the Economics is a social and moral philosophy that can account, measure, and define all activities in society. As a moral philosophy it can and does create a schema of right and wrong activity and certainly can give a definitive answer to the question what is the worth of a particular human life. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
