RE: MD the metaphysics of free-enterprise

From: Chuck Roghair (ctr@pacificpartssales.com)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 19:35:26 BST

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    Hello All:

    Forgive my naivette, but can an economic/political system in and of itself
    be qualified as "immoral"? The people who either elevate or manipulate the
    system, aren't they the ones who deserve these labels? If so, does that
    change the focus of this discussion?

    To put it another way:is such a thing as a moral economic system possible in
    practice? The general population sadly can't be trusted, not everyone,
    maybe not most. The extremes: compelling others to share everything or
    simply allowing the state to control everything are unacceptable choices to
    all but the genuinely extreme among us, so aren't we left with what we've
    got aside from fiddling with nuances here and there now and again?

    Free enterprise is not without its flaws, but I can't recall the last time
    anyone forced vacuous materialism on me. Materialism is an individual
    choice and not necessarily evil so long as it's tempered with a spiritual
    rudder.

    Best regards,

    Chuck

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]
    On Behalf Of Platt Holden
    Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 8:34 AM
    To: moq_discuss@moq.org; owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
    Subject: Re: MD the metaphysics of free-enterprise

    Hi All,

    Seems peculiar to me that many who condemn the immorality of the free
    enterprise system for its focus on materialism get all bent out of shape
    by the fact that everyone doesn't share equally in material things. Does
    anyone see a pesky contradiction here?

    Such inconsistency is neatly summed up by the phrase, "limousine
    liberals," an apt description if there ever was one for the democrat
    candidates now running for president and vice president of the U.S. :-)

    Best,
    Platt

       

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