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To: worst-case scenario

what if someone pays me to poop in your water supply? would that be ok? or are there some things in nature that should be off limits to profit-making?


12 posted on 11/22/2008 8:00:03 PM PST by brannon (we are all dying; some of us faster than others)
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To: brannon

Do you believe that capitalism operates according to enlightened self-interest? Pooping in a water supply isn’t enlightened or self-interested if you know what the effects are. Certainly the settlers at Jamestown would have eschewed it if they’d known how low it would lay them and their capitalist dreams.

And why would anyone pay you to do such a thing, anyway? There are plenty of people who don’t want the added costs of sewage treatment plants, operating on the idea that eliminating a cost is like an in-kind payment. In that regard, they are paying themselves to poop in their own water supply.

What would a Libertarian say about this choice? Where getting out of the way of business end and protecting nature begin? Your opinion?


15 posted on 11/22/2008 8:09:49 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: brannon

“are there some things in nature that should be off limits to profit-making?”

Nothing shiuld be off limits, you mine where there are mnerals, log where there are trees, nd drill where there is oil.

Environmental BS can go to hell!!

As far as birds and animals, if you can’t eat it or wear it it’s expendable.


22 posted on 11/22/2008 9:14:57 PM PST by dalereed
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To: brannon

Poop all you want,, 80 miles out to sea, 4000 feet down. Thats not a reasoned argument. Are you really suggesting this area needs protection?? If so,,, from what??


23 posted on 11/22/2008 9:23:58 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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