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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: How do you claim?
- Message-ID: <28460@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:37:15 GMT
- References: <3209@ucl-cs.uucp> <28217@castle.ed.ac.uk> <6067@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <6067@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzatsjl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Janusz Lukasiak) writes:
- >In article <28217@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
-
- >>In other words, even if was entirely your own stupid fault, and you
- >>know it, you should still keep your mouth shut, since the unprincipled
- >>brigands employed by the legal and insurance professions may still be
- >>able to put one over on your blameless victim. This sounds rather
- >>immoral, but don't forget the basic principle of Thatcherism: the
- >>greatest good for the greatest number is automatically ensured by the
- >>free operation of market forces, so being anything other than grossly
- >>selfish in all circumstances will definitely screw things up badly;
-
- >I see. So Mrs T's legacy includes, among other things, defining
- >rules for insurance companies.
-
- I suggest you reread the text you quoted more carefully. There is no
- recommendation in it about how insurance companies should behave. The
- only exhortation is for the client of an insurance to behave like the
- ideally rationally selfish economic unit on which Thatcherite economic
- "theory" depends.
-
- >How comforting it is to have a single scapegoat for everything (stupid
- >insurance policies, bad weather, inflation) : communists/freemasons/
-
- I'm glad to hear you find this comforting, but it seems somewhat of a
- non-sequitur in response to a posting concerned with the proper
- behaviour of an insurance company client.
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