From: Alexander Sheppard (alexandersheppard@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 07:46:41 MST
### One question - what would you do to those who would produce things that
matter, like bread, but wouldn't like to share them with those who decided
to make things that don't matter, like an ISS? Would you take the bread away
from bakers, and give it to the those who wanted to (quote)"achieve some
other goal that people thought mattered <i>themselves</i>"?
Well, I don't think that anybody ought to be able to dictate to anyone else
what they want to do. If the bakers just said, ok, we're going to destory
all this bread (and hence kill everyone) unless you do what we want, that
really is not acceptable to a free society, that's slavery. So yes, the
bread would be taken--there's no legitimate reason why that shouldn't happen
that I understand.
I mean, resources aren't things you can "trade freely" in many cases--or, as
I understand it, any cases, but certain ones are a lot more prominent--in
many cases they are things you need to survive, or have a decent life, like
food or a house. If someone takes all the food away, for example, you
die--that's essentially equivilant to murder if the person is deliberately
depriving you of food by force. So, essentially the capitalist system is
based on threats and punishment by the powerful, who control the resources
that others need to live by force. The powerful threaten the weak with
forced deprivation of resources, and the weak, fearing for their lives,
enter into slavery for the masters.
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