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Old 06-09-2008, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Space_Coyote View Post
Tell me, what motivated Europeans to sail the Atlantic to North America? What prompted the industrial revolution? Personal Computers? Greed is a wonderfully motivating force that drives human development, and so long as laws insuring against force or fraud exist, it is merely a symptom of an evolving human species to seek profit from time, labor, and capital.

You just proved my point. I guess conservative "values" don't include the idea that one shouldn't harm others, or society, in one's quest for MORE (which is what greed is, not the examples you gave). One cannot compare the mortgage broker who arranged a subprime mortgage for a comission with the inventor(s) of personal computers.
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