Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Human Right and Indifference

A Capitalist can deny the previously discussed charge that profit-seeking is Greed, and is, hence, a disorder, to which there is no Right.  For, rather, it can be argued that Profit is just a mode of Growth, i. e. a healthy process, the interference in which is, therefore, the violation of a Natural Right.  However, it is more difficult to deny that Smith explicitly promotes the indifference to the interests of others, via the suppression of any sympathetic instincts.  So, it is open to the advocate of a Right to an adequate standard of living to respond that Capitalism violates that Right--by actively suppressing the Species-instinct that would naturally correct a potential deficiency in one of its members.

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