Comment by barrkel
16 years ago
I suspect (some) people misunderstood what I was trying to say.
I wasn't trying to say that I thought free markets were immoral, or that they were not moral. (And so we should find a different economic system, or something).
I was trying to say that you cannot replace your personal morality, your moral system, with a free market (whatever that even means). That is, I was trying to say that markets were amoral, without moral content.
I think some of it comes from confounding a moral system (i.e. a system for evaluating the morality of an action) with a system which acts in a morally correct manner.