Re: The Cost of Preventing AGW
- From: Sevenhundred Elves <sevenhundred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:44:03 +0100
Peder B. Pels wrote:
Sevenhundred Elves <sevenhundred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peder B. Pels wrote:
ta <padlrnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 1, 3:49 pm, "V-for-Vendicar"
<Just...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"ta" <padl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
If the two companies colluding are the only sources of corn for those
customers, then the customers are forced to pay the price.
You could always grow your own corn. Or avoid eating corn.
Many people might starve to death without it, and are incapable of
growing their own.
The difference between that kind of coercion and holding a gun to
someone's head is only a matter of how quickly the people will die.
So, if a man wanders into the wilderness without packing any rations,
and eventually finds himself starving to death, he is a victim of
coercion?
No. But if you should happen along in that wilderness, with some food
for sale to hungry travelers, he is _forced_ to buy that food at a
thousand dollars per meal or more, as long as he can pay for it.
Who is forcing him, pray tell?
In those circumstances, the price is forced upon him by the seller, who
seems to have a monopoly on selling food in this particular wilderness.
If the
alternative is dying of starvation, he doesn't really have a free
choice.
No, you don't, but that still isn't force.
You can say to him: "Buy my happy meal or die," and it will be the
truth. If that isn't force, I don't know what is.
S.
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