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To: Mind-numbed Robot
Because I don't believe that it is strictly necessary that the two be divorced. Don't you think it is possible to have one's moral bearings and guideposts inform one's economic decisions? For example, if one believes that a particular decision is a "good" or "right" one from a moral perspective, as well as being reasonable from an economic perspective, would such an approach be fair game for discussion as a basis for decision-making?

I will disagree with your generalization about abuses "being eliminated", unless "being eliminated" means by the destruction of the overall system. Too often in history we have seen socioeconomic conditions pushed to extremes wherein the entire system along with its associated political structure is brought to a crashing end by abuses. Political, social, and economic stability is most often attained by keeping the various factors away from the extremes, with competing forces maintaining some kind of rough balance so the middle ground becomes the sustainable, desirable mode of operation. Abuses can be self-correcting, for sure, but sometimes only by catastrophic and calamitous events.

My fear is that the present economic course in this country is pushing us towards one of these extremes, and that will cause unnecessary and avoidable stresses if we only have the wisdom to see it and act before it becomes uncorrectable except by extraordinary and traumatic means. It is a slow process and might take another generation to be fully manifest, but the signs are there if one views them with the eyes of history.

81 posted on 12/11/2006 1:00:00 PM PST by chimera
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To: chimera

chimera, I feel as if I am talking to a child. Most of what you say is obvious, so obvious as to not need saying. I certainly agree with you on most of all you say. I was just trying to point you in the right direction for your solution. You have stated the answer yourself but then you continue to whine about it.

If your background is truly as you say (and I am sorry to say I no longer believe you) I can't imagine how you accumulated all that experience without learning basic reasoning ability.

Conversation is over from my perspective. I have said all I intend to say.


82 posted on 12/11/2006 1:18:54 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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