From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 15 2005 - 13:47:17 BST
> > 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.
Thank goodness!
> 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.
Only you wouldn't recognize MOQ's advocacy of freedom.
> 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?
That you'll justify any government intrusion into private lives to "save
lives" including blood-letting. Next: harvesting human organs.
Platt
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