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Old 12-19-2006, 06:19 PM   #23 (permalink)
Telluride
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Originally Posted by healer
It's certainly not illegal - that much is clear. The crux of the matter is more moral than ethical to me. I simply wouldn't feel right doing that to someone else.

Bad karma.
I don't think this is a case of "doing that" to another person. Both parties would presumeably be entering the agreement completely of their own free will. How is it bad karma?

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Originally Posted by filtherton
Except that when someone falls to their death you don't hear a lot of people nonchalantly say shit like, "Well, that's gravity for you. It'll do that."
You obviously aren't hanging around with the same people that I am.

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Originally Posted by filtherton
Another difference is that most pure capitalists would agree that trying to limit the detrimental effects of gravity is a good thing. The same couldn't be said about supply and demand.
I was comparing the phenomenon of supply/demand and gravity, not people's opinions of, or responses to, them.
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Last edited by Telluride; 12-19-2006 at 06:26 PM.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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