Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

[Gabriel Rocha]

		On Sun, Nov 25, at 05:24PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
| Are you saying that governments are providing a valuable service by propping up
| arbitrary prohibitions and thus establish a value system against which we can
| bang our heads ?

If you got that out of the quote you left in the email I am lost ;-p
But as a general rule, no. Keeping in mind of course that "value" is
subjective, because arbitrary regulations are in fact very valuable,
ask the Kennedys. The problem with prohibitions (which are never
arbitrary) is that they make for an uneven playing field in the
great game of "The free Market" thus hurting the whole, but often
there are those (few though they may be) who profit from
prohibitions. --Gabe

-- 
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer --On the eve of Britain's entry
into World War II:
	"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win 
without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be 
sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will 
have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious 
chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have 
to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to 
perish than to live as slaves.