[lit-ideas] Re: How to Force the Rich to be Patriotic
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:41:14 -0400
While your solution is to string
more red tape around the system, choking it further, so you can
manage the outcome and not get into nasty ideas like human freedom.
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Our difference seems to be where we locate "human freedom."
You seem to think "human freedom" is located in the freedom of
corporations to betray any national allegiance.
I locate "human freedom" in individuals, many of whom are powerless
against the economic circumstances of their time.
After all, who is being "choked by red tape"? Corporations, who are
fictional, chartered individuals. Whereas real flesh and blood
individuals are often at the mercy of corporate actions and have little
or no freedom of choice.
I support freedom just as you do, but I don't locate freedom in
corporate economic activity as exclusively as your arguments suggest you
do. In fact, I see corporations--business activities chartered to act as
individuals without the responsibilities of individuals--as one of the
prime hindrances to human freedom.
Maybe your experience shows you otherwise. If so, you should explain.
Eric
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