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To: SocratesJohnson who wrote (8852)5/7/2012 10:32:02 AM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 9211
 
There is no valid reasoning that points to the existence of natural rights.
Nonsense. You ignore a huge chunk of the history of philosophical thought and debate. Yes none of that is evidence, but your not talking about evidence now, your talking about reason.
"There isn't any evidence for the existence of natural rights therefore it's silly to assume that they exist.") The conclusion doesn't logically follow from the premise. " Of course the conclusion follows from the premise.
More nonsense. As I demonstrated in my last post, even for assertion of physical fact, lack of evidence does not always provide an argument for absence, much less conclusive support for the idea of absence. For philosophical ideas there is even less reason to always expect evidence.

History shows that the market has never been free. There isn't any reason to think that free markets will ever exist as they never have.
Its never been totally free, but various markets have been highly free, and the more free they are, all else being equal (or of course all else being better), the more efficiently they produce wealth.

There is very good reason to think that unfettered human greed will result in oppression.
The more free markets are the less likely greed is to result in oppression. The more government controls the market, the more those with political influence will oppress, and the more those with wealth will seek to gain political influence. Also very heavy control of markets by government is itself at least a limited degree of oppression (and in many cases not so limited).
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