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To: Protagoras
So the fact that government sets prices instead of the market is less important than the effects of doing so?

Well send me your scale from most important to least important as soon as you get it worked out and then tell my why it's worth bickering about. Maybe I'll even agree. Stranger things have happened. ;-)

57 posted on 06/21/2006 12:04:15 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus
Well send me your scale from most important to least important as soon as you get it worked out

The scale is simple, and the reason I pointed the whole thing out is because of the consequences of letting such things go with out expanding on them.

If you start to argue with someone who advocates government interference in private agreements about whether or not those effects are beneficial or detrimental, you have already allowed that person to change the subject and have in effect conceded that the government has the legitimate power to do so. The main argument is already lost in that case.

For this reason, it should never be left unchallenged. That was my reason for drawing the line I did.

We agree on the effects but I will never allow them to start the argument from a false premise.

In a free society, the government, (or anyone else, group or individual) would never be allowed to interfere at gunpoint.

In an "unfree" society, such practices are common and the result has been the ruination of those societies.

62 posted on 06/21/2006 12:21:56 PM PDT by Protagoras ("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
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