[re_nortex]

The profit motive is just that: a motive, as in motivation. Take that away and innovation as well as creativity cease. The free enterprise system has centuries of success stories. There is never a reason to prohibit profiting.

[Yashcheritsiy]

The profit motive is just that: a motive, as in motivation. Take that away and innovation as well as creativity cease. The free enterprise system has centuries of success stories. There is never a reason to prohibit profiting.

True...but keep in mind that simple montary profit is not the only motive. A company earning a ton of good will is a motive unto itself, as well.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Capitalism (as Adam Smith showed) must be balanced out with morality. Ergo, his treatise on capitalism and his companion volume “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: both of which are must-reads.

capitalism is the best way to go, but it must be balanced out.

There was no profit for the man who helped out the Samaritan who was waylaid on the road to Jericho.

Just as there are men who own pharmaceutical companies or own seriously large chunks of them getting no profit from helping out Africans, Jesus answered “who is my neighbor” and His answer still stands.