[MD] Science Wars

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Arlo, master of defamation, now makes Pirsig a target of his 
infantile trash talk.

[Arlo]
In other words, you are unsurprisingly incapable of responding to 
anything I've said, and hope that a inane and utterly distortive 
reply such as this will disguise that fact. Right. Got it. But this 
only proves my original comment to Marsha about talk-radio rhetoric. Thanks.

[Arlo restates]
The point stands, any "market" is merely a reflection of the cultural 
values of those who participate. This "Dynamic" institution would 
just as happily move six year old sex slaves to wealthy individuals 
as it is in brining my the latest PS3 games; it would just as readily 
set up "Meth-R-Us" next door to your local elementary school as it 
would bring another Red Lobster. It would just as soon sell nuclear 
weapons to hostile dictators as it would bring boxes of books to your 
local bookstore.

But that just underscores Krimel's point. "Dynamic" does not always 
mean "good". Well, from the POV of those dictators, the market's 
provision of nuclear arms may be "good", or from the POV of someone 
wanting a child for a sex-slave or a darkie to do his menial labor. 
But if that's "good", then I think I'd prefer a regulated "evil" 
world where the market is regulated by intellectuals against these 
things [and copyright, another tasty "goddam interllectual elitist" 
regulation on the free market].