As sound ethics look at every man as being a neighbor, so economics looks at the total, eventual result of an action. De Koster goes on. Also technical skill and intelligence. And so we produce more agricultural goods than we consume, and there is potential overproduction. This is the customary, agonizing anxiety of interventionists, namely, overproduction.
Charity is usually the first stage, and destructionism, the last.
Sometimes, in panic, all three stages are present at the same time. All three stages have a common origin and have behind them a common psychosis-the fear of overproduction or a desire to correct overproduction, real or imagined, of individual products or of products in total. He is still at the first position of Interventionism, namely, coercive charity. All true, of course. Then he brings God in again.