Thursday, April 29, 2004

Good bit of philosophy

from the Mises People (rhymes with Jesus People--as English speakers pronounce Jesus, nobody would spell Mayzoos or maySooss M-i-s-e-s):

Employment at Will

by Erich Mattei

[April 28, 2004]

Demonizing 'preference,' a key characteristic of all human action, by identifying it as an intrinsic evil and labeling it 'discrimination,' is absurd on numerous grounds. This skewed vision does nothing short of steal an individual's most vital of liberties, their right to self-ownership. (Unlike the interpersonal utility comparisons made by proponents of a redistributive welfare state, the fact that self-ownership is the most acclaimed of freedoms is a priori, for attempting to deny it is a performative contradiction.)

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