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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@May 19 2004, 01:24 PM
Water will flow to the path of least resistance too.
Sometimes man finds that creates problems, and he invented dams to channel the flow.
Only the truly insane environmentalists (and I don't deny there are plenty) would advocate that there should be no dams at all.
I don't see a lot of difference, personally, between the wackos that advocate there be no attempt to channel water and the wackos that advocate there be no channel for capital.
Taken to extreme, allowing the markets to control EVERYTHING without regulation is no different than a soviet-style "workers paradise" except for the rhetoric employed to defend it.
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PD,
I totally agree, which is why I stated there needs to be balance.
However, on the topic of global trade and the consequences, I think it is a no brainer to see that the benefits far outway the costs.
Then it becomes, is one capable of drawing the distinctions and accepting the good with the bad?
We both agree there is no utopia. What losses as a society are we willing to accept??