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Old 10-12-2008, 02:08 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
If making money and capatilism is morally wrong... I would say no its not. Although, I also think there should be some oversight at the university to make sure a professor is not just making token changes to reduce or limit the used market.

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Hmm, that's debatable... Unrestrained capitalism and making money IS ethically wrong - the fallout of which we've seen demonstrated in the past few weeks...

While the area affected is different in this case, unmoderated greed is socially, and ethically unacceptable...
To use textbooks as an example - does society want to loose access to the next Einstein because he can't afford the Physics textbooks, so chooses to study, for example "English and American Film Studies" (apologies to anyone who's studying this - but I'm willing to argue that Physicists are of more use to society than Film Critics, at this stage of our evolution - though I am wholly in favour of a left+right brain education...).
The answer is - in my opinion - of course not - therefore society has a duty (and vested self-interest) to ensure that this doesn't happen - or at least to help ensure that the socio-economic framework hinders, rather than helps, overt profiteering at the possible expense of people's educations...
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