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To: FerdieMurphy
Each and every Christian standard and law is diametrically opposed to human subjugation, human control, and making mankind a highly controlled beast of corporate burden.

It's at this point in the editorial where I part ways with the ideology. In my opinion, Christian standards are acceptable and highly preferable as long those standards are kept to the overall themes found in just the New Testament. The moment one starts flirting too heavily with the standards found in the Pentateuch, you've lost me. You lose me because those standards, when imposed, I believe run in stark contrast to the Good News that we've been given more recently. Many of the people that I run across and debate -- the ones who focus more on the Pentateuch -- seem to have forgotten much of the larger themes of the Good News and do not practice much tolerance for the free will that God has granted us.

The next thing about that sentence is this notion that we're a slave to so-called corporatism. It's complete bunk! Corporations are empowered because they have made decisions to serve their market in such a way that they've attracted and maintained consumers; consumers with free will. We, as consumers, choose to do business with corporations voluntarily. The same goes for those who work for and provide their labor inputs to the corporation so that it can do business. The only coercion that exists is to the extent that workers allow themselves to run out of options, making it hard for them to escape without experiencing temporary pain, and giving the corporation the leverage.

7 posted on 05/26/2006 5:33:35 AM PDT by LowCountryJoe (I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
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To: LowCountryJoe
Corporations are empowered because they have made decisions to serve their market in such a way that they've attracted and maintained consumers; consumers with free will

Maybe I'm reading her wrong but the authors statement you replied to sounds like an indictment of the profit motive of corporations. Milton Friedman said that in a free society there is but only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to create profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. It is people, not businesses who have responsibilities.

Then there is Williams' law: Whenever the profit incentive is missing, the probability that peoples wants can safely be ignored is the greatest. If a poll were taken asking people which services they are most satisfied with, for-profit organizations would dominate the list while non-profit organizations would be at the bottom.

In a free economy, the pursuit of profits and serving the people are one in the same. The system isn't perfect but it is the closest we've come to it. Why more people (especially here) don't recognize this remains a mystery.

24 posted on 05/26/2006 12:54:09 PM PDT by Mase
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