Fasting Day Today.
In general, my attitude to personal freedom is that people should be allowed to do whatever they want as long they are not actively hurting others. However, this does pose interesting questions about how you deal with behaviour that is not criminal but is certainly morally repugnant. Fianna was telling me about a friend who was offered a job as a "personal shopper". Her first job, if she had accepted it, would have been to buy 40 Hermes handbags for the client's wife's 40th birthday! When you know that these handbags easily cost over 5,000€ each, you cannot help but feel that this is close to criminal behaviour. How can a person think of doing something like this and not feel shame every time they look in the mirror. More importantly what can society do to prevent such immoral acts. I have to say that I feel that such disregard for elementary standards of behaviour are as bad if not worse than many acts deemed criminal. I am against the principle of Prison and I don't really believe in punitive rates of taxation, so the solution isn't obvious, but possibly a healthy dose of redistribution of wealth would help. While we wait for my inheritance system to be implemented (see #48) we could start by capping any single individual's wealth at €1,billion (which still seems pretty generous to me).
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