Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: corruption a non-word: accountability in Govt. Message-ID: <552@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 08:56:03 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.552 Posted: Tue Mar 26 08:56:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Mar-85 03:33:47 EST References: <827@oliven.UUCP> <535@whuxl.UUCP> <1033@topaz.ARPA> Organization: /usr/exptools/lib/netnews/myorg Lines: 17 > >sevener > >If McDonald's takes to adding arsenic to people's > >hamburgers rather than sawdust.... > > It's interesting to note that in the exchange between sevener and > the libertarians, the libertarians all claim that murder etc is > stupid ("bad business") whereas sevener thinks it's a good idea > (ie, that people acting in their best self-interest (as in a marketplace) > will do it in the absence of external forces. > > I'd have to agree with the libertarians on this one... > > --JoSH Why don't you read "The Jungle" ? You might get some sense of what unrestrained and unregulated capitalism is capable of. tim sevener whuxl!orb