A Hopeless Defense of Capitalism . A version of the following letter was published in The Ottawa Citizen on April 17, 1998. According to your editorial, the fragmented right in Canadian politics needs common core beliefs to unite it. A thing without volition, one that acts automatically, is a robot. Volition is inseparable from reason.
Happiness is impossible to a robot.
Perfection must not be divorced from the nature of the entities involved. Happiness is the reward. Moral perfection cannot be achieved by physical force. A man can be forced to obey someone's edicts but cannot be forced to accept them as right. That social system is laissez-faire capitalism.