Ethical foundations of the left

[Ken Hanly]

Well we seem to agree more than we disagree. If find you remark about Posner
remarkable though.
Someone who does not see the relevance of millions of unnecessary deaths and
vast misery as counting against an unrestrained free market surely is
extremely odd. How could he not get the point? Does he really hold that
unnecessary deaths and vast misery are not bad consquences! And if he didnt
see these as evils why would he  not  concede the point that the system does
have these results? Why would it matter to him that these results were not
produced unless he somehow thought they were bad?

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message ----- > But it's not possible to test philosophical
propositions in such a
> conclusive way. It's not even obviosuly easy to test first order moral
> judgments this way. If you pointed out to Judge Posner that an
unrestrained
> free market would lead to millions of unnecessary deaths and vast misery,
> he'd say, "Assuming you are right, which I don't concede, your point is?"
>
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