[r9etb]

I hope the extreme example illustrates what reading the article failed to.

Let me use your extreme example a different way:

Suppose the dying person doesn't have $25 for that life-saving drink of water. The water seller can refuse to sell him the water at a lesser price. The question is, should the water seller refuse, and thereby let him die?

I hope the extreme example illustrates what reading my post failed to -- namely, the possibility that there is a difference between "can" and "should".

[Atlas Sneezed]

Suppose the dying person doesn't have $25 for that life-saving drink of water.

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Then, the seller, not having sold it at below market prices to people who didn't value it highly, will have it on hand to GIVE to the dying person, or trade it for goods, or against future earnings.

Do you support government penalties for raising prices to market prices in a crisis?

[CharacterCounts]

Suppose the dying person doesn't have $25 for that life-saving drink of water. The water seller can refuse to sell him the water at a lesser price. The question is, should the water seller refuse, and thereby let him die?

Your comment sets forth the essence of a socialist system.

[Muzzle_em]

NICE!