I finished by saying we'll have to disagree and we made our points but you are not happy with that ending of our discussion so fine then.
What I said is no fallacy, we are specifically talking about one issue where there are dishonest people trying to con other people for whatever reason. And now you are twisting this into a different issue: Government control. Well I'm not for governement control either but we are on a very specific topic. If governement control was your primary motive then you would speak of it in general but the fact you wish to let scalpers get away under the pretext of government control, seems a bit far fetched to me.
I don't mind speaking of government control, it's an issue in and of itself. But the fact that we live in a society with a government controlling is just that, a fact. So since it's here, I think the government might as well do its job of protecting the weak or the stupid if we want to call them that. They have laws for everything else so why do you want to make this crime an exception?
Do you game? There is this famous game called Bioshock and there is a book that was written on the world of Bioshock called Bioshock: Rapture by this author called John Shirley. I read that book and I think you should read it. In short it describes a new society founded by a billionaire called Andrew Ryan and this guy escaped the Soviet Union and went to America where he made a fortune. But in the end he was not happy with American capitalism because he thought it was not enough of a freemarket, Andrew dreamed of a freemarket that is 100% a freemarket, where anyone can do literally anything without the governement or laws telling them what to do.
So in theory his dream seemed to be a good idea but then he left America and founded this new society by building an amazing city uner the sea and down there people were free to do business and create whatever they wanted, drugs, weapons, medical experiments, anything. And when very dangerous and experimental drugs gave crazy powers to consumers and afterwards side effects were found where people were losing their minds and started murdering each other, the business of those drugs could simply go on because Andrew believed that no matter what, a free market cannot be regulated and must be left unchecked, if these drugs were somehow wrong, the market would regulate itself as people would simply not buy the drugs anymore, but boy was he wrong...
Suffice to say that things ended in the most horrible manner imaginable. Little girls were genetically altered to be part of a system of collection of a substance that allowed the use of those drugs, but that still did not stop Andrew Ryan. To him if those children were worth not being abused and destroyed for a business, the market again should do something about it, if the market did nothing and business kept going well it meant those little girls only got what they deserved...
Well it's a good read, if you have the chance and I think you'll simply like Andrew Ryan and his ideas. I think you'll see him as the hero of the story.
