Quote from: Erdogan on July 05, 2014, 01:14:36 AM

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Quote from: cosmicapex on June 30, 2014, 06:43:20 PM

Quote from: Alex_green on June 30, 2014, 06:36:45 PM

Capitalism itself has no moral standpoint...

Yeah, this. How can freedom to compete in an open market, where you're not allowed to hurt people and steal people's stuff, be immoral?

The moral of capitalism is that of human rights including right to one self and ones things, non-initiation of force in violence to those rights, the rule of law, cooperation in the form of voluntary exchange.

That is right on. There is no reason to force people to give up what they have worked for to give it to people who are less skilled.

Right. And the immorality of the redistribution state is that the voters, not themselfves willing to take others' value by force in violation of human rights, contract the leaders to contract the taxmen who contract the police to take it. Not understanding how the free market economy works to the best for all, they blind themselves to the reality what is going on, and consider themselves virtous in taking from the rich to give to the poor. Which, after corruption and cronyism is included in the formula, in fact result in the state taking from the poor and give to the rich, destroying the productive capacity of the population in the course.

Inconscient moral self sanctimoniousness - I point my finger.

There are simply a lot of voters and liberal politicians that think with a robinhood mentality.