So if you fix my car and in exchange I fix your
roof, that's corrupt?
Symbiotic relationships in nature are corruption?
Come on, think before you speak.
> In a free market exchange party A
> sells a good or service to party B that creates negative externalities to
> society.
The free market system is destructive? Then why are
free market systems far more prosperous then
command economies?
Nature is all about the free interaction among
it's components, so is a proper market system
and that process created life and intelligence.
You call that negative and corrupt?
The highly unconstrained interaction among independent
agents created all we consider beautiful.
To you that is dirty?
Come on, do some homework before you think.
> After multiple iterations of said exchange the government cleans
> up the mess at taxpayer expense. These are examples of your A-B vs C
> positive sums.
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> Actually one should think in terms of an impartial third party grounding
> judgement in law and morals.
Uh huh, right. Adam Smith from his book
or Morality...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
"The all-wise Author of Nature has, in this manner,
taught man to respect the sentiments and judgments
of his brethren; to be more or less pleased when
they approve of his conduct, and to be more or less
hurt when they disapprove of it.
He has made man, if I may say so, the immediate judge
of mankind; and has, in this respect, as in many
others, created him after his own image, and
appointed him his vicegerent upon earth, to
superintend the behaviour of his brethren.
They are taught by nature, to acknowledge that power
and jurisdiction which has thus been conferred upon
him, to be more or less humbled and mortified when
they have incurred his censure, and to be more or
less elated when they have obtained his applause."
~ Adam Smith
Second, because God is detached from the system, Smith
argues that human beings are God's regents on earth.
It is up to them to be the judges of their own behavior.
Individuals are necessarily most concerned with themselves
first, and are therefore best self-governed. Only then
can they judge others via the moral system Smith
describes.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/smith/#H2
Couldn't have said it better myself.
> Adam Smith recognized such. Some people
> internalize such judgement as conscience, something you have shown no
> evidence you have, so you are the last person to be lecturing others about
> morality.
>
This from someone that thinks natural processes
are corrupt? Why should I take your personal
attack seriously?
Jonathan
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