--- Jacob W Braestrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would we ever say: Uhhh, this guy is ugly and no
good, bad mannered and ill tempered - but, it's no
fault of his own, and he REALLY doesn't enjoy the
competition for sexual partner forced upon him by
society, so why don't we just force this beautiful
In the book "The Economics of Public Issues," the authors state "Measured in terms of fatalities per mile traveled, airplanes are indeed 15 times safer than cars."
I wonder if this is really true. I looked at some data from the NHTSA website and discovered the following:
In 2000, about 7000 of
--- david friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To put it differently, once you take the determinist
position
And if we take the free will position, can't we just
as easily come to the defense of Aristotlean (sp?)
physics where a thrown rock moves of its own impetus
until it 'decides' that it
If there
were no efficiency consequences, why not equalize incomes? The answer,
I maintain, is that more able and hard-working people deserve more.
I don't see why,
efficiency aside, more able and hard-working people deserve more. Being
more able and hard-working should be reward
