09-24-2008, 05:24 PM
mattkime wrote: I certainly agree that too much concern with morality isn't helpful but we do need to consider the winners and losers of considered responses.
while capitalism isn't a moral belief system, it does rest on a system of beliefs. (almost all of which have been thoroughly tested)
However, I don't believe that "good" and "evil" has been tested -- and if it was, I happen to believe that "evil" would prove to have been successful more often than we might like.
The idea of trying to determine which home owners are worthy of being saved and which ones should be allowed to go under is so nutty that it completely destroys any idea of attacking the problem from that direction. And god forbid we help everyone, then the folks who aren't in trouble at all will get a mad on. So in other words, the concept is just a fairy tale.