HP's strategy explained :

Stephen Grossman wrote:
In article , Noodles
Jefferson wrote:

In article
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Profits are made by producing the goods and services needed for
human life. This is both moral and practical since morality is a
guide to life,
not to the
sacrifice of life; and moral, because profits, ie, values, are a
need
of life.

Capitalism as religion. That's ****ing beautiful. Except for one
thing. The adult video trade destroys this theory completely.
Nobody
requires a plastic vagina or sex tape for survival. Yet, selling
plastic vaginas and sex tapes is highly profitable. You cannot call
it moral without considering how that profit was made. You also
can't declare it moral right off the bat. Greed is a sin. The love
of profit has left a lot of damage in its wake. Just pick up any
history book for examples.

Capitalism is the economics of reason and free will. The mind is
needed to produce the material values needed for life. And the mind
has produced
a profound revolution in material comfort and safety as we can
observe
in our semi-capitalist culture. We live vastly better than previous
eras
and other cultures. The fact that some people will misuse their
freedom
is their concern, not yours, and not a rational justification of the
tyranny needed to outlaw capitalism. In a free or even semi-free
culture, you are free to go your own way, away from pornography. No
one can force you to
use it. Furthermore, the morality of sacrifice, which is the
depraved
basis for hating capitalism (pornography is a convenient cover),
requires the hatred of the mind. There is no rational basis for
sacrifice. Your encouragement of sacrifice is the indirect source of
the irrational
values, and thus inappropriate emotions, that have plagued most
people for all recorded
history. The more rational people are, the more their economics and
sexual lives will be rational. There is no Original Sin but there is
originated
sin. And
the first sin is evasion. Morality starts when you focus your mind,
logically, and thru your senses, onto the concrete material universe
and produce
the values, economic, sexual, etc. that human life requires. The
decadence
of the Roman Empire was the product of Sophistic
subjectivism expressed as Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, and
hedonism. Aristotle's philosophy of reason was not influential at
the
basic level of culture. Today, however, we have Ayn Rand's
Objectivism, a new version
of Aristotle's philosophy without the corrupting elements from
Platomic mysticism.

http://www.aynrand.org
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