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To: HiTech RedNeck


(I know you're not dissing God) ;)

Seriously though, what you propose is that therefore all private ownership is sin, since we should give whatever we have to the neediest.

I don't think He wants that.

Further, if it is true, as I believe it is, that price gouging saves lives, then my way is doing the greatest good, and ensuring the widest dispersement of property to those in need, and ensuring against hoarding.


282 posted on 08/19/2004 5:08:01 PM PDT by Repairman Jack
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To: Repairman Jack
that therefore all private ownership is sin

When it is purported to supersede any and all other orders from God, this which would otherwise become a virtue becomes sin.

And in the case of gouging the "ownership" is a particularly poor example. The vendor is not being told to take a loss, the vendor is being told to be as humane as circumstances allow.

286 posted on 08/19/2004 5:10:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Repairman Jack
Further, if it is true, as I believe it is, that price gouging saves lives

First you have nothing more than a "belief" -- no proof, no cloud of witnesses, no bible -- and secondly what happens when the gougee is forced to spend all the money he has on vital commodity A so cannot buy equally vital commodity B at all?

288 posted on 08/19/2004 5:17:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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