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Law And Grace In Best Picture Nominee "Les Miserables"

Daniel30 Wrote: Jan 12, 2013 9:32 AM
Explained differently; Man-made law can run from but not hide from natural law. In economics, laborers seek higher wages and entrepreneurs seek the same workers for lower wages. So we can try to keep workers from entering the USA for its higher wages and we can try to keep manufacturers from moving to other countries where wages are lower but the differences in wages will mean that people will scheme to discover a way to cross the man-made boundaries. Given time the natural laws of economics will always prevail and tend towards equilibrium.

I take my political debates into the movie theatre with me. Suspend disbelief? That I can do. Suspend political/cultural/religious debate? Never. It’s probably a good idea to let go once in a while, but just because that’s a good idea doesn’t mean it’s easy to do.

So, here is what I read on National Review Online before going in to see Les Miserables, and what was in my mind the whole time:

“All decent people have a measure of sympathy for those who, driven by desperation, come...

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