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Old Apr 8, 2006, 08:56 pm   #41 (permalink) (top)
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Quote by: tman_ndsu08
You hit the nail on the head.

You're making a huge and quite unneccessary assumption when you say things like "I'm not sure if it's feasible for everyone on the planet to do so".

It isn't feasible.

That's where economics come in.

Scarce resources are most efficiently divided by a free market.


Those who can afford to be, will be healthy.
This is a good example of isolation in the crowd. One imagines oneself as separate from the rest of humanity, and what happens to others, doesn't matter. This is the point where the evils that have consumed so much of theologically thinking begins.

Socrates on the other hand, would say, sooner or later, those who have been exploited will become a problem. Now we have to build elaborate systems to protect ourselves from "those people", and inside our gated communities we may feel safe, but is this freedom? Is this really the height of human potential?


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