Libertarianism.In a September 18, 2006 letter to the editor, reader Randy Miehls comments that "conservatives" and libertarians agree on the free-market approach to government. Allow me to clarify. Economic freedom has proven itself to be the most efficient method of dispensing dispensing provision of drugs or medicines as set out properly on a lawful prescription. A prescription can only be filled, the drugs supplied, by a registered pharmacist, veterinarian, dentist or member of the medical profession. scarce resources. Government intervention and meddling med·dle intr.v. med·dled, med·dling, med·dles 1. To intrude into other people's affairs or business; interfere. See Synonyms at interfere. 2. To handle something idly or ignorantly; tamper. in the economic market limit choices, criminalize crim·i·nal·ize tr.v. crim·i·nal·ized, crim·i·nal·iz·ing, crim·i·nal·iz·es 1. To impose a criminal penalty on or for; outlaw. 2. To treat as a criminal. peaceful exchanges, and require further meddling. Market corrections Market correction A relatively short-term drop in stock market prices, generally viewed as bringing overpriced stocks back to a level closer to companies' actual values. are made in a free market through the millions of decisions made by consumers every day. Efficiency is rewarded with profitability. I believe that this is what we agree on. Mr. Miehls realizes that economic problems are self-correcting, yet somehow he does not believe that social or moral areas are self-correcting. He demands moral guidance in the form of vice laws. Would not the moral free market also contain the same type of automatic corrections as the economic free market? Is not life itself a scarce resource to be spent at the discretion of the individual? Yes, there are those who may abuse their moral freedom just as there are those that abuse their economic freedom, but in the absence of government safety nets, they will be forced to take responsibility for those actions. The war on drugs costs us all billions of dollars, tears family members apart, over fills our jails, and poisons innocent people in foreign lands. Yet thanks to the black market (the free market driven underground by government regulation), drugs are available everywhere, including inside prisons and in schools. The economic cost and the moral cost of freedom would be far less than that of government intervention. Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of labor reform movement, and legal theorist of the 19th century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. wrote in "Vices are not Crimes" that "Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another." If we are not free to harm ourselves, then we are not free at all. DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses SEELY St. George, Utah St. George is a city located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Utah, and the county seat of Washington County, Utah.GR6 It is the principal city of and is included in the St. George, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. |
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