Re: Payday Lending Part Deux

Bill Bonde { ''the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack'')
wrote:
> Mary wrote:
> >
> > Bill Bonde { ''the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack'')
wrote:
> > >
> > > plausible prose man wrote:
> > >
> > >>> That's not really an argument in defence of your contention that
> > >>> seemed to be that demand makes something right.
> > >> Anytime two parties can mutually satisy demand through free
exchange,
> > >> aggregate utility is increased, which is as close to "right" as one
> > >> may come without appealing to metaphysics.
> > >>
> > > Buying into this argument means that the examples I gave are also
> > > "right": gambling, prostitution and assassination.
> >
> > You really don't see a difference between gambling and assassination?
> > That explains a lot.
> >
> Is that the best response you have? I don't see any connection
> necessarily between any of the three above things, other than by
> your argument they are all "right".

 Hiring someone to have *** with you isn't really any different from
hiring someone to mow your lawn. Assassination is more like hiring
someone to mow my lawn, and I don't want my lawn mowed. Really, trust
me on this. I know you think you know my preferences better than I do,
and have some better idea of what I should be doing than I do, but
you're just forcibly imposing your preferences on me.

So, really, assassination is like state action; If you think outlawing
payday loans is okay, then I should be allowed to collect money from
the other posters here and come by and work you over, huh? After all,
that's society's preference, right?

> > >>  While I won't totally discount metaphysics, you understand, if for
no
> > >> other reason than your milkshake won't be bringing anyone to your
yard
> > >> without a generous dose of alakazam, even an amazing dimwit (ob new
> > >> meme: magician name!) should see it's cheating to argue from an
appeal
> > >> to the unverifiable, especially where such happens to establish
> > >> conclusively the truth of what you'd been arguing all along.
> > >>
> > > What appeal to the unverifiable?
> >
> > Yeah.
> >
> > Mary
> > (I don't know what you're talking about)
> >
> I'm trying to figure out what the appeal to the unverifiable is
> supposed to be about.

"Collective will," for one thing. I assume that belongs to the same
organism as the collective unconscious.  Are these creatures raised on
collective farms?