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Comment by barrkel

16 years ago

People can be coerced by their circumstances; but that's beside the point.

You can hire someone to murder someone else. Nothing wrong with that transaction in a free market. Similarly, you can be a credit card processor for child pornography - you take your cut, but since you don't do the deed, it's not your problem.

Do you see the problem?

(Hint: morality isn't emerging here. It comes from somewhere else.)

And I have no idea why you mentioned some "other economic system". I didn't. Why? Because I wasn't contrasting economic systems. I was contrasting moral systems.