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Why does it matter?
Its like asking which branded fast food outlet will be most popular if we allow the market to provide fast food
worcesteradam,
If it does not matter to anyone other than me, it doesn't. I see no problem with that, on the other hand, if it matters to someone else then I would like to know if their reasoning is similar to mine. We can compare notes.
It matters to me, because I think it is important to keep life going, it is worth it, to me, to keep the human species alive, a little longer, and I think that honest productive people are much more likely to do things that keep the human species alive, a little longer, if honest productive people can choose to keep the power they earn, if they have that option, instead of having the power they earn taken, because they don't have that option, and then have that stolen power used to torture and mass murder, which to me, tends to work against the human species remaining alive longer.
I really have a hard time with someone using the word "we" in places where I find myself excluded from that group, as in your use of "we" to describe a group that may or may not "allow the market to provide fast food".
I'm not in that group.
People who want to eat fast food can, as far as I am concerned, and people who want to produce fast food for people who want to eat fast food is also fine, as far as I am concerned, and if you think that fast food is harmful, then it is fine, as far as I am concerned, for you to avoid eating fast food.
I don't think it is a good idea to sit idly by and allow someone to torture you, against your will, and murder you, against your will, or torture you without you knowing about it, or murder you without you knowing about it, with fast food, or any other weapon.
If you, or anyone, are hatching plans that intend to injure some innocent person, and then you follow through with that plan, then it matters to me, It matter to me that such a plan, if known, can empower the intended victim with the power needed to avoid such a thing, or defend against it, or seek help in defending against it.
I think that the crime, with fast food as a weapon, would be one whereby the medium of communication is abused, and whereby the producers of a harmful product not only fail to disclose the potential for harm, they may actually hatch plans, and execute plans, to willfully cover up the facts, distort the facts, and prevent the potential victims from knowing the facts, concerning the potential harm that can be caused by people who use the product being sold. That would be a case of willful deceit being the weapon, not the fast food, to me.
At this point, what comes to my mind, is a term called expedience, or even a term called triage. On a scale of highest threats to humankind on one end, and lowest threats to human kind on the other end, there can be, for example, sunlight on one end, and nuclear war on the other end, just to get an idea of the scale, the scale that matters, perhaps.
"We" can't allow the free market to provide sunlight, because, as we all know, it can be harmful.
That is on one end of the scale.
"We" cannot allow the free market to provide nuclear war, because, as we all know, it is without doubt harmful.
Does it matter that sunlight is the source of power that must exist for human life to exist?
Does it matter that nuclear war has no redeeming quality unless the idea is to end human existence, and then nuclear war is a real winner from that perspective?
Setting aside the far ends of the scale, can it be known that Cheeseburgers, or fast food, is not as harmful as legal monopoly money extortion rackets, and that it may be a good idea, depending upon what matters to anyone, you, me, someone else, it may be a good idea, if "we" are going to do something relatively positive, something along the lines of doing less harm, doing something that may slow down the rat race toward extinction, the race to the bottom, the race to hell, to concentrate the focus of defensive effort more toward the more destructive things and less toward the less destructive things?
I can report that I think that it matters to me. I think it is a good idea to focus power usage toward the production of more productive power, and I think that a competition in legal money markets will work toward that goal, but I could be wrong, and that is why I appreciate this feedback.
If you represent the American public, and you don't care to have a choice between a mortgage that cost you the price of two whole houses, and a mortgage that cost you only the price of the actual house, then my offering is worthless, at least to the group that you represent, however large that group may be, and then, throwing myself a bone here, I can imagine that someone, one person other than me, would choose, if they had the choice, a mortgage that cost him, and me, only the price of one home, not two, and then we two, the one other person, and me, can stop sending our earnings to those legal criminals who use that power we made, in their torturous, and murderous work, where their work is becoming powerful enough to actually threaten the extinction of the species. Perhaps it is just me, I'd like to hang on to my ray of hope, and so I fabricate this imaginary second person, alive today, who thinks that this does matter, in this way.
Call me crazy?