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To: SilentZ who wrote (336535)	5/5/2007 3:40:52 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574267

Z, I'll skip over the point-by-point refute and just comment on one thing: > Friedman seems to think that people are pencils while Steinbeck thinks that people are human beings. I'm leaning towards the Steinbeck side. I think you totally missed the point of "I, Pencil." By unleashing the forces of unhindered free-market economics, you place your trust in the energies and the creativity of human beings. You hope that all of the competition, all of the allocation of said energy and creativity, and all of the rewards associated with it will work itself out and move society forward as a while. That's a far cry from claiming that conservatives treat people like pencils. Of course, it doesn't address how we should deal with those who fall through the system and can't catch up, but like I said before, that's where you then place your trust in the charitable good nature of individual human beings. Tenchusatsu