Re: Price gouging is beneficial. Price gouging is great!

Bob LeChevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rex) wrote:
> >> I did not claim that I did.  I found the attitudes expressed at that
> >> time to be of subhuman morality.  My own feelings on the matter, and
> >> my utter antipathy to libertarianism, came as a result. 
> >
> >No one expected that you would either.  I found the socialistic
> >attitudes expressed at that time to be of subhuman morality.  My own
> >feelings on the matter, and my utter antipathy to socialism's violence
> >and theft, came as a result.
> 
> I doubt that you were out of grade school at the time.

I doubt that you were out of kindergarten at the time.
 
> >> Libertarians aren't afraid to use force.  They're just afraid of a
> >> more powerful force countering their use of force (i.e. government).
> >> They also think that the only kind of force that matters to morality
> >> is the kind that results in immediate lethal injury.
> >
> >Socialists aren't afraid to use force.
> 
> They don't claim to be; libertarians claim moral opposition to force.
> Socialism, being only an economic theory, has no stand on political
> matters.

Thanks for conceding that socialists don't claim to be moral;
libertarians claim moral opposition to force. Socialism, being only an
totalitarian  theory, embraces the same stand on political matters as
that of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Communist
China, the National Socialist German Workers' Party and their
shortages, poverty, misery, death and mass slaughter.

You always use the classic reasoning used by totalitarian socialism. 
If the issue is education, food, clothing, shelter, TV, widgets or any
goods or services, then a freedom advocate will point out how people
provide for needs in a free market economy, and the response of the
classic totalitarian socialist is that everything that people have in
a free society can be provided by a totalitarian government because
"Don't government providers have to answer to citizens too? Or at
least to the provider board, who the citizens elect?"

It is frightening how commonplace that response has become and how the
people who provide that response to one subject (e.g. schools) NEVER
OPENLY expand the response as was done in the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, Communist China, the National Socialist German
Workers Party, Cuba, etc. It is as if the people who use that
simplistic response do not know all the horrible ideologies that have
used that same response.   Very frightening.

You do not think philosophically about the range of your own comments,
and you simplistically rubber-stamp government programs that others
start (because you are not enough of a creative thinker to come up
with your own socialist ideas).  Point to any website or even other
group posts where you attempt to explain any political philosophy or
philosophy of government that you hold (you hold none, other than
rubber-stamp statism) or point to any philosophical defense of liberty
(calling for the reduction of government programs, laws, socialism)
that you have ever made.  You can point to nothing.  You are a
rubber-stamp statist who uses the cliches of totalitarian socialism.