To: narses
The free market is a means, not an end. When it becomes an end in itself, it becomes a false god. As a means, it must be used to serve a good end -- something higher than a ruthlessly "efficient" allocator of goods and capital. The duty to form and employ a functioning conscience cannot be subcontracted to an amoral mechanism capable only of determining the market-clearing price but not capable of telling you what it means or whether you should care.
72 posted on
11/14/2003 9:57:36 PM PST by
Romulus
(Nothing really good ever happened after 1789.)
To: Romulus
I agree, but where does that leave WalMart? I can choose to shop there or not, yes?
73 posted on
11/14/2003 10:00:12 PM PST by
narses
("The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace" Francis Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria)
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