On 10/25/05, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Devine quoted Nat Rev: > > > >"Demand" will always exist, as human wants are > > unlimited. > > We hear that cliche so often that no one even bothers > to point out that "demand" and "wants" are > abstractions that exist in different logical > categories. Those wants could be unlimited indeed yet > not translate into demand for commodities, effective > or otherwise.
------------------- As humans are mortal and finite, it is difficult to understand the claim regarding unlimited wants; simply sticking a variation of the *not* operator at the beginning of a term is not a necessary or sufficient condition for establishing whether that term refers to any object, event, attitude etc. The claim is even stranger coming from a so-called consrvative magazine which was founded by a theist; for the overwhelming majority of theists only the deity is unlimited and for many of that group who have actually speculated on the issue, it is precisely because the deity is unlimited that he/she may have no wants whatsoever.
