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To: Texas_Dawg; dogbyte12; luckystarmom; ArneFufkin
We have 3 kids, a mortgage.

How much are you offering for?

Deviant ideologies are self selecting. Fascism is attractive to violent, hate filled people. Communism is attractive to resentful intellectuals who want to play God.

Pure free market at all costs ideology, we see, is attractive to people with a pronounced sadistic streak who see themselves as superior to others. Bullies who naturally identify with those who inflict suffering on others. This is not surprising since, like fascism and communism, it is spawned by Social Darwinism. "Might makes Right" thinking tends to attract a certain type of human being.

772 posted on 08/26/2003 12:49:49 PM PDT by Tokhtamish
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To: Tokhtamish
While your have pegged other ideologies well, you are wrong to call 'free market' economics 'might makes right'. An utter confusion you preach based on a fundamental misunderstanding.

Your misunderstanding and error is to borrow the Socialists' lie that free exchange of goods is somehow 'coerced' or unfree.

Free markets are if anything else about "freedom". The free and voluntary interchange of labor and goods. As such, free market economics is *not* "might makes right" but comports with the fundamental principle of Freedom that says we should all be able to make decisions for ourselves, and Justice that says each of us should get our due (as agreed upon in voluntary contracts).
916 posted on 08/26/2003 4:02:04 PM PDT by WOSG
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