Links: Question 6 Elgin’s Answer Joel’s Answer Elgin Hushbeck – Question 6 – Reply 1 (Profit) Content: (Note: Content corrected an updated 7/30/13, because the editor posted the wrong content.) 1) You say profits must be kept low. But terms like “low” and “high” are relative terms, and frankly very subjective. What is low or…
Links: Question 6 Elgin’s Answer Joel’s Answer Joel Watts – Question 6 – Reply 1 (Profit) Content: 1.) You quote Scripture regarding pay. Are profit and the pay the same thing? Well, there are clearly some differences; otherwise we would not have separate words. But at their core they are basically the same in that…
Links: Question 6 Elgin Hushbeck – Question 6 (Profit) – Answer For we do not aim to be rich merely for our own sakes, but for the sake of our children, our neighbors, friends and most of all, for our community. For the private fortunes of individuals are the wealth of the state. (Cicero, De…
Links: Question 6 Joel Watts – Question 6 (Profit) – Answer What is the value of profit as a motive for action in the marketplace and competition as a regulating force? Do you trust profit making organizations more than non-profit? Under what circumstances? While profit and the profit motive are often maligned they are the…
By: Rev. Dr. Robert R. LaRochelle In my book Crossing the Street, released by Energion Publications in 2012, I attempt to show the relationship of Catholicism and Protestantism to one another. I also advocate for the importance of recognizing the strong ‘ecumenical center’ that most Christians share in common. I encourage both Catholics and Protestants…
One of the huge problems with this discussion is that you are extremely sloppy with the presentation of your claims, frequently without any clarifying examples, such that I am often left wondering if you are really that wrong, or if you actually mean something other than what you seem to say; but if so, what…
What is the value of profit as a motive for action in the marketplace and competition as a regulating force? Do you trust profit making organizations more than non-profit? Under what circumstances?
Combining Replies from both Elgin Hushbeck, and Joel Watts. Question #5 Reply by Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. Reply by Joel Watts Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. Response #1 Joel Watts Response #1 [6/24/13 – I inadvertently posted the wrong content for Joel Watts’ reply. The corrected text is below. – HN] Response #2 by Joel Watts: 1.) The…
Links: Question 5 Elgin Hushbeck Reply to Question 5 Joel Watts Reply to Question 5 Joel Watts Question 5 Response 1 Second Reply Set (Both Joel Watts and Elgin Hushbeck) Question: You write of finding “the least bad one.” Why are you so pessimistic that the situation cannot be righted? Even if Eden started off…
Links: Question 5 Elgin Hushbeck Reply to Question 5 Joel Watts Reply to Question 5 Elgin Hushbeck Question 5 Response 1 Second Reply Set (Both Joel Watts and Elgin Hushbeck) Q1.) We seem to be in agreement concerning the current functioning of the jury systems, but I am not clear exactly what you mean by…