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  %PURE CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM ABLE INDIVIDUALS MOTIVE+030107
   %TAKE CARE THEMSELVES ACCUMULATE WEALTH EXTENDED+030107
  %FAMILIES TRIBES COMMUNIST SOCIALIST RIGHTS WORKS+030107
  %FALLEN CRACKS VULNERABLE SICK WEAK DISABLED RISK+030107
  %MENTAL ILLNESS DISEASE HOSPITAL PRISON UTHANASIA+030107
 %CONTROL DOMINATION CRIMINALS GIVERS LOVERS HELPER 030107
                                                          
     In a purely capitalistic system, able individuals are
motivated to work, take care of themselves, and accumulate
wealth ---  because  the pure capitalistic system does NOT
overtly make provisions for taking care of individuals who
do  NOT  work,  take care of themselves,   and  accumulate
wealth.    The  purely  capitalistic  system    does   NOT
explicitly   encourage  extended families to take care  of
their own ---  as is the  case  in tribal communities,  or
in communist and socialist states and communes.           
                                                          
     In a purely capitalistic system the focus is upon the
individuals'  rights to be unique individuals,   creative,
and   provide   manufactured  products  and  services   at
competitive prices.   There are no explicit provisions  in
the  HEART  of the  purely capitalistic system for  taking
care   of  people  who  are:    sick,   weak,    disabled,
victimized,   mentally  ill,  mis-guided,   etc.      Such
services create the risk  of  undermining  the motivations
of   individuals   to work,  take care of  themselves  and
accumulate  wealth  ---   to live  off  of  when  they  as
individuals  may be sick,    weak,   disabled, victimized,
mentally ill,  mis-guided, etc.                           
                                                          
     The   purely  capitalistic  system  has  had  patches
overlayed   upon  it  ---   to  deal  with  some  of   its
inadequacies;    but it has  not successfully  dealt  with
the  issues  of raw greed, covetousness, concentrations of
power,    domination,   preoccupations    with   achieving
control/invulnerability;  and what to do about individuals
who  are  victims of mental illness,   other  communicable
diseases, and tragedies.                                  
                                                          
     Mental illness is usually not engendered by bacteria,
molds,    virus,   protozoa  and  prions ---   as are most
physiological   dis-eases.      However,    mentally   ill
people do rob other  people of the freedom  to be at-ease;
and  so  may cause others who  are pre-disposed  to mental
illnesses to become mentally dis-eased.  If each person is
alone  responsible for taking care of themselves ---  what
is  society  to do with mentally  ill people who  fail  to
take care of themselves?   Put them in prison?    Put them
on the streets?     Let them become criminals on their own
through enlightened  self-interest?    Spread diseases  to
healthy people?     Provide  under-staffed &  under-funded
mental   wards    for  them?     Make  use  of   selective
euthanasia?     Are people  to  be  valued  for  how  well
they  fulfill   the expectations  of the pure capitalistic
system?      Consider  carefully  the  likely   long-term-
consequences  of  implicitly  saying   "yes"    the   last
question!    How  will  world-wide-communities  respond to
the  threats  posed  against   global  integrity   by  the
consequences  of  implicitly  saying "yes"   to  the  last
question?                                                 
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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