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Old 06-16-2005, 03:54 PM
Daliman Daliman is offline
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Default Re: Paying a homeless person to eat dog poop

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It's definitely not to be looked well upon, but it's pure capitalism.

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Are you suggesting that "pure capitalism" excuses immorality?

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No. I am saying, however, that there is a point where these bums are willing to do this. It happens to be $100. That's the market. For you or me, it might be $1000 or $1M or $10M or maybe it can't be bought from you or me. The bums are setting the market rate and they're doing it (I assume) by their own free will. If they're willing to do it, then they are allowed to make that decision for themselves. Everyone's an adult here, right?

Now, do I think the person paying these guys to eat dog poop is a completely dirty, rotten [censored]? Of course. It also happens that I think much the same of many business people.

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Yes, but considering the source of it, Mr. McDonalds-is-irresponsible-in-its-craven-drive-for-profits himself, it's more than a bit hypocritical. This is the point, not really the dog-poop eating bum, Although the fact that it could easily get him violently ill and posibly permanently so shpuld have crossed the producers mind, also.
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