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

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:43:46 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Absolutely.  My emotions render me superior to a machine.
>

Isn't it funny the Universe had to wait billions of years to reach a
stage where biological machines would be able to think clearly about
itself, for those machines to decide to act like any other animal
instead?

>
>"Reason" as in "philosophy" is totally dependent on the quality of the
>axioms.  Those who argue it typically choose axioms based on whether
>they support the results that the person wants.  Reject those axioms,
>and you may end up with the opposite conclusion.
>

The principle I start with, and one I am not willing to reject, is
that individuals own themselves. Based on this principle, it's not
difficult to conclude that price gouging is not immoral and should be
illegal.