Quote from: capn noe on December 03, 2012, 05:18:24 PM

edit: So If you have a car and want a fish, and I have a fish and want a car, and the marine ecology has started catastrophic collapse due to overfishing and the wellbeing of billions of humans is at risk; where is the wealth? Do we look upon the next generation and say, well... FY;GM I really liked that car and I didn't have anything to do with it anyway maybe you should try to find a new market somewhere. Space maybe, I dunno it isn't my problem.

This reminds me of the nonsense myrkul and company write about their right to land modifications (or decimation) sans regulation. They claim that they are free from regulation of activities on land they own because they bought the land with their own money (presumably hard earned). I showed the absurdity of it. It goes like this:

Myrkul works his ass off for Joe on the east coast putting up fences around Joe's plot of land, cutting down the trees, and building a big mansion. Joe pays myrkul. Myrkul, flush with cash, moves to the west coast, and buys land. He then proceeds to do the same to his plot of land. Myrkul claims the government has no right to tell him he can't cut down trees on his new plot of land because he bought it with his money.

Consider though: myrkul's money came from decimating land on the east coast. Apparently that buys him the right to decimate land on the west coast. Myrkul believes money buys him rights which cannot be contested. Myrkul in fact precisely believes (if we work out the chain of effects) that engaging in environmental destruction on the east coast affords him exactly the rights to engage in environmental destruction on the west coast. That's wealth creation in the eyes of myrkul.

Myrkul claims he has done nothing but create wealth. Has he? Or has he made the planet a poorer place?

Furthermore, apparently those born with a silver spoon in their mouth, in myrkul's eye of the way the world works, have more rights to create devastation than those who don't have the money.

That is myrkul's world.