>
>"Do I obey economic laws if I extract money by offering my body for sale, by
>surrendering it to another's lust? . . . . Am I not acting in keeping with
>political economy if I sell my friend to the Moroccans? . . . . The
>political economist replies to me, You do not transgress _my_ laws, but see
>what Cousin Ethics and Cousin Religion have to say about it. My _political
>economic_ ethics and religion have nothing to reproach you with . . . . ."
>
>Some German thinker, writing in Paris in 1844.
>
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>What exactly is the point? If conventional economics predict an
>uncomfortable result for a proposed act (e.g., if I offer to prostitute my
>self for a low enough price, somebody will pay me), conventional economics
>is wrong empirically? Is morally bad?
>
>David Shemano
There is also a problem of faulty reasoning which seems to imply that if
one has the right to do as they will with their own body (which I agree
with) they have the right to do as they will with another's body (Which is
slavery and the antithesis of all I hold dear)
Best,
John R Henry CPP
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