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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (rex) wrote:
>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.

Since I'm at the ripe old age of 50, I most certainly was.

>> >> 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;

You are imagining things.  I made no statement about socialists.  I
said that socialism (not socialists) has no stand on political
matters, which has nothing to do with any claim about morals.

>libertarians claim moral opposition to force. Socialism, being only an
>totalitarian  theory,

Socialism is no such thing.  You must have flunked social studies.
Socialism is an economic philosophy, not a political one.  Neither is
communism.  Libertarianism is a political philosophy.  Marxism is a
political philosophy.

[repetitive tripe deleted]

lojbab
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