Evil is overcome with Good - not with an opposite evil.
So where Capitalism (which is defined as the FREEDOM to control one's own property, industry, produce and distribution) has been abused by an evil (such as the evil of theft, or exploitation), the solution is not to introduce an opposite evil where the people or the State forces the loss of control of your property, industry, produce and distribution, to the power of the people or the State (which is Socialism/Communism/and government Budgets emphasising Welfare ).
The solution is simply to outlaw the theft and exploitation. Outlaw the evil which was abusing the freedom.
Don't outlaw Freedom itself, because freedom is not the evil. The right to control one's own property, industry, production and distribution is not an evil.
Theft and exploitation are evil - but forcing money out of someone else so it can be redistributed the way you wish is also an evil, an opposite evil. Doing so through legislation, through an alternative political ideology, or through an alternative emphasis in the government Budget, doesn't make it right. Saying that's okay is to redefine morality. It blurs morality.
The love of money is certainly the root of all evil. But legislating to deny someone control over the distribution of his own money (as Socialism/Communism, and a big-spending Welfare Budget does) is an expression of the love of money, and is a-moral, just as much as theft and exploitation are a love of money and are immoral.
Covetousness (wanting something that belongs to someone else) doesn't cease to be covetousness just because it's done within a legislative framework.
Theft (taking and redistributing someone else's money) doesn't cease to be theft just because it's an ideology of a political party and done in the name of 'compassion'.
After taking the backward step of accepting blurred morality and 'compassion' with regard to finances, it's not such a big step further back to accept blurred morals and compassion with regard to say abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, multi-religious multi-culturalism, and the criminalisation of anyone who protests it. Which is why we often see more of a tendency towards such things in Australian Labor and amongst the Greens than by the more conservative parties.
So where Capitalism (which is defined as the FREEDOM to control one's own property, industry, produce and distribution) has been abused by an evil (such as the evil of theft, or exploitation), the solution is not to introduce an opposite evil where the people or the State forces the loss of control of your property, industry, produce and distribution, to the power of the people or the State (which is Socialism/Communism/and government Budgets emphasising Welfare ).
The solution is simply to outlaw the theft and exploitation. Outlaw the evil which was abusing the freedom.
Don't outlaw Freedom itself, because freedom is not the evil. The right to control one's own property, industry, production and distribution is not an evil.
Theft and exploitation are evil - but forcing money out of someone else so it can be redistributed the way you wish is also an evil, an opposite evil. Doing so through legislation, through an alternative political ideology, or through an alternative emphasis in the government Budget, doesn't make it right. Saying that's okay is to redefine morality. It blurs morality.
The love of money is certainly the root of all evil. But legislating to deny someone control over the distribution of his own money (as Socialism/Communism, and a big-spending Welfare Budget does) is an expression of the love of money, and is a-moral, just as much as theft and exploitation are a love of money and are immoral.
Covetousness (wanting something that belongs to someone else) doesn't cease to be covetousness just because it's done within a legislative framework.
Theft (taking and redistributing someone else's money) doesn't cease to be theft just because it's an ideology of a political party and done in the name of 'compassion'.
After taking the backward step of accepting blurred morality and 'compassion' with regard to finances, it's not such a big step further back to accept blurred morals and compassion with regard to say abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, multi-religious multi-culturalism, and the criminalisation of anyone who protests it. Which is why we often see more of a tendency towards such things in Australian Labor and amongst the Greens than by the more conservative parties.
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