andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> On 30-12-2009 18:22, Warp wrote:
> > gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> >> What the free market IS very good at is giving consumers exactly what they want
> >> in the marketplace. If they want lunch counters completely free of persons with
> >> dark skin, then the marketplace will provide it. If they want gas guzzlers that
> >> pose fatality risks to neighbors in collisions, and raise sea levels, the
> >> marketplace will provide them.  If they want sustainably grown organic coffee,
> >> the marketplace will prove them.  If they want the absolutely cheapest
> >> chocolate, the market will provide it using (literal) slave labor from Africa.
> > 
> >   I'm sorry, but that was one of the most ridiculous things I have read in
> > a long time.
> > 
> >   You are equating capitalism with racism? That must be the most far-fetched
> > comparison I have ever heard in my life.

> That deserves a price as one of the most far fetched straw man arguments 
> I heard in a long time.

  And that deserves a price as one of the most far-fetched straw man cards
I have heard in a long time.

  You would have to explain why you pulled the straw man card in this
situation.

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                                                          - Warp

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