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[noahgibbs]

Ah, Bob. A bit of desperate, soul-deadening wit to start the new weekend. Thanks!

Latest silly thought going through my mind: the pope controlling the Catholic Church is a little like a centrally-planned economy. It's just a centrally-planned morality. I wonder if you could find similarities between Soviet abuses and shortages, and questionable moral calls on small local issues. In either case, the central planning authority would be producing inefficiency by not being able to handle the full load with the ability of free market pressures. Dunno. Does morality establish itself in anything resembling a free market way?

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[astralagos.livejournal.com]

The Catholic argument would be that morality is tantamount to physical law. Consequently, talking about free-market morality would be somewhat akin to talking about free-market gravity.

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[bastille.livejournal.com]

Or, rather, the interpretation of said physical law and interpretation of said moral law.

Sort of like Aristotle v Newton v Einstein, etc. The physical laws don't change, but the interpretation does. When Newton was allowed to compete with the Greeks, he won, and when Einstein allowed to compete with Newton he won. (For varying values of 'won'.)

The Catholic church put itself in role of central source for interpretation of physical law before, and that worked spectacularly.

As for its assumed role of central source for interpretation of morality...

The free market of moral interpretation will win out in the end regardless of any central efforts otherwise.

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[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Oh. So having a pope is like having centrally-dictated gravity?