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

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:28:00 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Capitalist Pig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:43:46 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Absolutely.  My emotions render me superior to a machine.
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>>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?
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>Human beings cannot think clearly about themselves.  They are biased
>by self-interest.
>

Now you only need to demonstrate that somehow this bias of yours
renders you superior to a machine. But I digress.

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>>The principle I start with, and one I am not willing to reject, is
>>that individuals own themselves.
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>I don't accept that axiom, and indeed find it morally questionable
>that the concept of ownership should apply to human beings at all.
>Hence your philosophy is utterly worthless to me.
>

Ownership means having control over. By self-ownership, an individual
is able to claim full control over him or herself (and strictly him or
herself). Why do you find this questionable?

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>I agree that it should be illegal (or taxed 100%, which would
>accomplish the same purpose and reduce the deficit), but I suspect
>that you misstated.
>

You got that one right.