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Does it seem that the same people who want to regulate "Capitalism" are the same ones who want "laissez faire" in the other areas of their lives?

Asked by saint (3975points) September 23rd, 2011

Capitalism is market laissez faire.
Once it is regulated by government, it is not capitalism anymore-it is a controlled economy.
Laissez faire also applies to how we live out our lives outside the market place. Reasonable people want to be free to choose whom they run with, whom they love, whom they marry, and what they do with their reproductive organs and they don’t want to have to explain it. Like I said, laissez faire.
But it seems like the most vocal critics of market laissez faire are often the people who are the most vocal proponants of laissez faire the rest of the time. Yes?

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