I'd really appreciate it if you walk through this more slowly.

So the first step is saying, "People are rational actors," where rational is a fluffy filler word which bears no meaning in the sentence. If any meaning can be attributed to the word "rational" it seems to be in the legal sense of "responsible for their," as far as I can tell.

While this is a squishy starting point, I don't disagree with the sentiment that "People do stuff and they are responsible / accountable for their own choices."


What's the next step? If it goes straight to "people know what is best for themselves," then you lost me already. There needs to be some real clarity on these terms. How many times have you been stuck in a rut and a friend says something that you immediately think is obvious and good advice? Until that moment, you did not know what was "best for yourself." You may not have even wanted to talk to that friend.


This isn't even getting to the point of people who are being taken advantage of by other people due to the free market influences. There is money to be made off of exploiting children to the point of unquestionable abuse. The free market gives this value, and leaves absolutely no incentive to regulate it in a manner which is both meaningful and possible. People who perpetuate the abuse will continue to do so as long as there is money to be made... which it always will, even if only in black markets (the most free of markets, I'd assume).

What do you have to say for this brutal nature of human desire and selfishness to create a value on the creation of human suffering? How can the free markets ever possibly curtail this?