abuses Google

>>People by their understanding of the inherent value of every human being's life everywhere, not just in their community, region or nation, and by their awareness of the value of life in general, not just human life, and their awareness of the interconnectedness of all of us, all life, and our place in the universe, could come to view one person's excess as encumbering on the opportunity of other humans and other life to fulfill their basic needs.  In other words, it would be considered unethical to pursue excess if there were a single person elsewhere in our world who was malnourished or starving; that it would be unethical to pursue excess when any species of life on the planet might be endangered by said pursuit; that it would be unethical to use up finite resources in the pursuit of excess when such would hinder the potential of our species (or any species that might ever evolve sentience on our planet in the future) to explore the stars, and thus survive.<

So what's the price of a melon? 
Enough to compensate me for the cost of bringing it to market, and against the costs of bringing next year's crop, plus a margin to meet all my needs?
Or does it fluctuate bearing in mind my customers may have more needs (your example: they want to have 4 kids) so I need to give my "excess" to them in the form of a cheaper melon?
Would I set aside for the spaceship from each transaction, or every year IF I'm still in business?
These are problems that must be confronted by a voluntary system of ethical commerce, each person must answer them.
IF you impose an ethical system where each person has no way to determine the rightness of their acts, you are merely imposing tyranny where some people are punished for waht they don't consider bad behavior, and their neighbors look away because its easier than challenging the mysterious accusations of Authority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielbasa

you have never explained how the Free Market is going to award people value based on their anticipated needs such as a desire to have a larger family

you brought that up as an example of current repression: people couldn't have all the kids they wanted.

you claim the free market will solve it.

You never explain how.  That's my "melon scenario" -- how can people offer value in exchange for value and EACH PERSON with varying
"needs" gets their varying "needs" met?   How can you offer something for sale to people and get enough to feed 2 kids without taking from your customers who want to keep value to raise their own kids?  Does the price change for people who want no kids? 

please justify your assertion that a voluntary system will meet these requirements

In the exploitative situation the vendor decides what he needs to get from each sale and that's the price, you claim this is exploitatin of customers who need to pay a lower price to keep their wealth

LONDON (AP) -- Ireland's Olympic team is investigating one of its athletes for betting on an opponent to win at a pre-London Games event.

The Olympic Council of Ireland said Saturday that an athlete made a $4,800 profit on the wagers, and withdrew $4,435 in cash from an account with a gambling operator.

"At the moment, it is between the Olympic Council of Ireland legal department and athlete's counsel," team spokesman Jack McGouran told The Associated Press by telephone.

The athlete's name and sport will not be disclosed during the legal process, the team official said. The details also were not identified in a report Saturday in the Irish Independent daily.

The Irish team, which has 66 athletes registered at the London Games, is handling the case while the International Olympic Committee is "monitoring the situation," McGouran said.

"We are aware of it, we are gathering information and will take action if needed," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.

IOC rules bar athletes from betting on Olympic events.

"We have a proper process of dealing with betting cases which is much more robust than we had before," Adams said, adding that the case appears to have "no effect so far on the games. At the moment it's just to gather the information to decide if there's a case to answer from our side."

Illegal and insider betting in sports has fueled fears that match-fixing and corruption present a bigger threat to the integrity of sports than doping.

The IOC has led efforts in recent years to bring sports federations, law enforcement agencies, governments and the legal gambling operators together to coordinate and fund the fight against betting corruption.

Accepting the premise that "excess" wealth can be "distributed" creates an authority to determine and enforce definitions of "excess" and oversee distribution. 

You claim this can be done by the "free market" without any examples of how somebody who accumulates wealth through voluntary commerce is going to end up no better off than people who just want to take language courses and eat and watch television.  You engage in sexual fantasies whereby the entire human race changes how it finds sexual partners. 

Your plans for integrated, centralized, coordination of sex, economics and politics offends every person who thinks sex and money should be free of politics, and every person who thinks money and politics have nothing to do with sex, and those hippies who want sexy politics without being tied to material possessions.

Proof: Rwanda dirt farmers did not make any gains when Bear Stearns and Dean Whitter imploded

the Ferraris went unbought, the mistresses moved back to Michigan

was Kathy Bates' inspiration in Misery

haha Arfeh beat me to the post of that picture

> ..Nemeara.. wrote:

> if this was real. .would it  be humane or not to wake her ?..<<

pretty sure the humane thing would be to concentrate on avoiding the truck

> ..Nemeara.. wrote:

> not really cuz who has the take care of the bum in the wheelchair?  right, the woman.<<

So...your job is a cruel injustice?

your Queen is still tops

grabbing Obama's sleeve to stop his toast to Her because she interrupted him to play a song to herself

i'd have slapped her

i'm pretty sure the Americans answered that survey in inches, which has caused great confusion in the results