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

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:00:34 -0600, Capitalist Pig wrote
(in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:43:46 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.


Sounds like The First Church of Rand (Reformed).

[The original temple was a /lot/ more intelligent.]



Gray Shockley
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