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Originally posted by Spanky
Then what was the purpose of your hypos?
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As I've said multiple times already, I was trying to figure whether your support for free trade was motivated by the principle of doing the most good (i.e., net gain to the country) or helping the most people (i.e., doing what is best for the majority) by posing a hypothetical in which the two pointed in opposite ways.
Your posts have convinced me -- at least for the moment -- that your support for free trade is not principled, in the sense that you believe free trade is consistent with one or more principles to which you're committed and that you would abandon free trade if those principles dictated, but rather that it's ideological, in that you are committed to free trade as such and espouse whatever principles are convenient as a justification for that result.
