[MD] Daodejing

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Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hi Platt
> 
> But we have to decide how free we want to be individually
> and agree this collectively. Are we happy for people to use
> their resources in any way? What do we consider to be criminal?

Hi David, 

Criminality is determined by elected government representatives who pass
laws enforced by the police at gunpoint.

> How do we monitor whether individuals are being criminal?

In courts or by sting operations approved by courts.

> Can we go on allowing individuals to waste resources due to their
> inidividual whims or compulsions?

One woman's waste of resources is another woman's wise use. So long as no
crime is committed, one should be free to use her resources as she sees fit.  

> Is it moral to pay someone
> high wages that they use to destroy their own biological and
> intellectual quality (say by taking drugs)?

What someone is paid is determined by the free market. What someone does
with her pay is her business unless she uses it to commit a crime, such as
bribe a politician (in which case the bribee is as guilty as the briber.)

Platt
  



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