Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
"You've got the correct definition of capitalism, if you can't work out what it means in real life then that's not my problem."

Actually, it is your problem. You seem to keep singleling me out as the only person who disagrees with your use of the word, despite the fact that every other person in this thread has disagreed with you. Talk to them, not to me.

Very well. For one's rights to be rights then one must share the same rights - and the same opportunity to access those rights - as the rest of the community. Capitalism is where you believe that your own rights should take precedent, and you extend them at the expense of other's rights.

For instance, say that it is my right to expect others to be honest and truthful. My friend expects to enjoy that right, while also enjoying the right to lie to others whenever he sees fit. Since this negates other's right to honest and truthful conduct he is being capitalistic. Caring only about his capital firstly, see? Rather than evenly distributing rights. He says it is his right to lie to others. And he also says it is his right to expect others to be honest and truthful to him. So which is it?

Let's say the first is his right. That is that it his right to expect others to be honest and truthful to him. If this is the case, then he doesn't mind invading their rights to extend his own (ie appending the right to lie whenever he likes). This is capitalistic because the rights of others have been reduced.