[MD] Flying Spaghetti Monsters

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Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> Examples: Arlo's grandfather may have come from a family of miners, but he could
> choose some other occupation. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> On more note. These people DID choose. They choose to enact protections from
> exploitation. Perhaps if the mining companies, and sweatshop owners, and all
> these places would have treated their workers better in the first place,
> without "socialist programs", there would have been less need for these
> regulations you now find so abhorrent.
> 
> Instead, they did not. And the mine workers decided to form a group that said,
> if you want us to mine for you, you must treat us like human beings. The mine
> owner, then, could decided NOT to mine, right? Seems like that's just as valid
> an outcome of the "free market" as any.

Good points about choices for employers and employees. I agree. I support the
right of employees to voluntary form unions and to strike. I also support the
right of employers not to hire union workers. The Dynamic Quality of the free
market is as applicable to employers and employees as it is to the creation and
distribution of goods and services. "Socialist programs," however, involve 
government force, which, as you well know, I'm against as a threat to human
liberty, i.e., the freedom to choose.

Platt

  
 


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