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Originally posted by bloodyfart:
productivity and ethics are not intertwined. i could make a ton of money stealing from poor people. is that right?
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Yes, but the significant difference in my examples and yours is that I will never suggest a scenerio where one person infringes upon another persons property rights. Property rights can be stretched to mean the right to live, the right to privacy upon one's property, and the right to do as one wishes upon one's property.
I do not support polution in any way whatsover, but I do believe that the more we increase regulation on what someone can and can't do with their property (especially when their actions don't infringe the rights to property of others), the more we take away the very incentives to benefit society.
But then again, we aren't discussing politics are we? Indeed, there is value in things such as "free range pork," so I'm all for it.
But I will continue to eat meat and love it.