Monday, January 05, 2004

Post Holidays physiocratics

Our dear brothers from the Mises Institute add this great insight into "the Laws of Nature and Nature's God."

Key quote:

Indeed, it is in the autonomous family—and only in the family—where the pure socialist principle actually works: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

It is personal love that the communists try to imitate with their political policies. Humans are incapable of loving people they don't know. We can muster that caring for a few moments, but we're not capable of maintaining it for any great period of time in the absence of the object. The evolutionary cause of our ability to care for people we've never met is the need to learn from the experiences of others through stories.

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