From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 00:14:01 MDT
"Alfio Puglisi" <puglisi@arcetri.astro.it>
> I'm advocating for more information for the consumer
Right. I'm for motherhood and apple pie too.
> You seem to stumble on a contradiction here:
Do I? Well good, contradictions and paradoxes are always stimulating and can
be fun, lets see what you got.
>on one hand, you think that people protesting GM are protesting the
>wrong thing
OK, yes that's true.
> On the other hand, you trust their judgment in
> buying the right things
Oh dear that's not a very good conundrum now is it. I trust their judgment
100% to buy the things they want to buy and that's all I trust.
>What i think is that, without proper information, people often make
>the WRONG choice.
Without relevant information people could make the wrong choice, I think
GM information is more relevant than the astrological sign of the farmer who
grew the food, but not by much. Many would disagree with me however,
they'd say nothing is more important than astrology.
> it just feels wasteful to go to such great lengths just to
> see if that red fluid in a bottle is orange juice or colored water.
But what reason is there to think that laws and the bloated government
departments that always grow around them like a cancer will stop somebody
selling colored water as orange juice better than the market can?
> And who are you to tell people what they should protest?
If people want to protest GM food they can, I wouldn't dream of
stopping them but I do feel free to call them unwise for doing so.
>If the free market of ideas brings billions of $ to football
>players and nothing to cryonics research, well, that's just
>free market at work. Judging from what I read in your post,
>you should approve those choices.
It's not perfect, is that a surprise? I've said this before and people
think I'm joking but I am not; the free market is only the second
best system, without a doubt the best way to organize society is
just to have everybody do exactly what John K Clark tells them to do.
Unfortunately for some reason I've had a bit of difficulty convincing
others of the wisdom of this approach so I have to settle for second best.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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