Comments on: If you love the free-market, why do you loath nature? http://www.williamboot.net/2007/02/14/if-you-love-the-free-market-why-do-you-loath-nature/ A weblog on economics and psychology Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:07:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Don Boudreaux http://www.williamboot.net/2007/02/14/if-you-love-the-free-market-why-do-you-loath-nature/#comment-3077 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:41:13 +0000 http://www.williamboot.net/2007/02/14/if-you-love-the-free-market-why-do-you-loath-nature/#comment-3077 Good points all, William -- save for your conclusion that I have a fondness for City Hall. (I emphatically do not!) I am dutiful son of the Scottish Enlightenment; therefore, I do see society -- society at its best -- as organic. By "nature" in my original post, I meant not all that is natural but, rather, the uncivilized wilderness (mud, bacteria-infested water, absence of plumbing and of restaurants and of wine and of wi-fi and of all the fruits of a commercial-driven division of labor. Good points all, William — save for your conclusion that I have a fondness for City Hall. (I emphatically do not!)

I am dutiful son of the Scottish Enlightenment; therefore, I do see society — society at its best — as organic. By “nature” in my original post, I meant not all that is natural but, rather, the uncivilized wilderness (mud, bacteria-infested water, absence of plumbing and of restaurants and of wine and of wi-fi and of all the fruits of a commercial-driven division of labor.

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