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

Capitalist Pig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:28:00 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>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.
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>>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.

It does.  Why?  Because I say so.  One of the advantages of not being
reliant on logic is that I can have an opinion without "proving it".


>>>The principle I start with, and one I am not willing to reject, is
>>>that individuals own themselves.
>>
>>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.

Nobody has control over themselves (or over anyone else).

Proof?  When the grim reaper comes, in whatever way he does, you are
gone.

>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?

Because I am a realist and I know that we don't understand ourselves
well enough to control ourselves.

lojbab
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lojbab                                             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
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