From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 07:17:15 BST
Dear Mark H.,
You wrote 10 Jun 2004 10:03:53 -0700:
'Wim objects to my list of possibly immoral institutions because he thinks
he needs to compare them to something else, in order to proceed. I say fine.
Compare systems that provide health care for profit with
those that fund it for everyone from a community base. Which of the two is
of higher social morality, using DQ as its measure?'
In my 'economics of want and greed'
(www.antenna.nl/wim.nusselder/schrijfsels/economics.htm or via www.moq.org)
you can find a hierarchy of social patterns of value (4 types of
society/economy). 'Health care for profit' belongs to the 3rd type of
society. To the extent that 'health care funded from a community base'
refers to state-enforced funding, it belongs to the 2nd type of society and
is less (socially) moral. To the extent that this 'community' that funds it
is a voluntary association (in which the contribution to health care funding
is experienced as a kind of membership fee), it belongs to the 4th type and
is more (socially) moral.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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