From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 16:34:02 BST
On 13 Jul 2005 at 7:09, Platt Holden wrote:
> msh 7-12-05:
> The idea that unregulated capitalism will not lead to monopolies, or
> near-monopolies, defies common sense. Even a cursory look at the
> the last decade's merging of banks, media producers, insurance
> companies, airlines, defense contractors, computer software and
> hardware companies, would belie the notion that monopoly is somehow
> "impossible" unless it is caused by government intervention.
platt 7-13-05:
Mergers are not monopolies.
msh 7-14-05:
Clearly, mergers and acquisitions can lead to monopolies. This is
why such business practices are regulated by agencies like the
Federal Trade Commission and Federal Reserve Board although, since
the Reagan 80's, these agencies have issued little more than rubber
stamp approvals.
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msh 7-12-05:
It's not my task (or right) to single-handedly bring about the Moral
Society, even if I could. My position is that a more moral society
will evolve naturally if we work to remove the physical and
psychological impediments blocking the vast majority of people from
realizing their full human potential.
To this end, I've argued for specific actions, including:
prohibiting wealth from unduly influencing domestic and foreign
policy; prohibiting wealth (and power) from dominating the
propagation of information; and prohibiting the privatization of life-
essential products and services.
So far, you've failed to demonstrate how such actions are
antithetical to the moral underpinnings of the Metaphysics of
Quality.
platt 7-13-05:
Prohibit, prohibit, prohibit. The MOQ moral underpinning antithetical
to such actions -- in a nutshell:
"Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of realty, the
source of all things, completely simple and always new. It was the
moral force that had motivated the brujo in Zuni. It contains no
pattern of fixed rewards and punishments. Its only perceived good is
freedom and its only perceived evil is static quality itself-any
pattern of one-sided fixed values that tries to contain and kill the
ongoing free force of life." (Lila, 9)
msh 7-14-05:
I think it's safe to say that no one other than you interprets this
passage to mean that society has no moral right to prohibit certain
behavior among its citizens.
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platt 7-12-05:
Would you be in favor of a law that increased taxes on those who
refused to give blood on a regular basis in order to replenish the
blood supply that saves lives? If not, why not?
msh 7-12-05:
Yes, if those who refused cannot prove that giving blood put their
health at risk, and if the process of collecting and distributing
blood was conducted by legitimate non-profit agencies. People who
profit from the existence of community services should be required to
support those services, one way or another.
platt 7-13-05:
Thanks, you made my point.
msh 7-14-05:
Uh, what point?
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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