Thursday, December 8, 2011

week 14 reading

The Sumptuary Manifesto
It seems that this is a declaration that we should create new laws to dictate how people should live freely. Some of these changes can be beneficial but at what cost. The tradeoff appears to be reduction of individual human rights for society being better off as a whole. No matter how better off society might stand to be, it'd never work. People would judge their individual opportunity costs to be too high and the majority rule would supersede the sumptuary supporters

No comments:

Post a Comment