Questions
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Kip
–Did global warming cause the Burma cyclone?
–Should the Senate summarily refuse to confirm any more judicial appointees by President Bush? (“[T]he Bush administration and its allies have made a politicized judiciary into an art form.”) (But recall this old post.)
–A Special Guest Question: “Why would God, with just 10 things to tell Moses, include jealousy about livestock?”
–Who suggested that not wanting to use PayPal is the functional equivalent of buying heroin? (“We’re not allowing people to offer unsafe choices…”)
–How can we simultaneously solve both the food price crisis and the mortgage crisis?
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Well if I was founding a religion and issuing a bunch of religious laws today, I would probably reflect on the fact that during the twentieth century about ten million people were murdered largely due to jealousy about livestock, and that a great many national economies have been ruined for that reason and closely similar reasons.
"Capital" derives from "head" as in "head of cattle", that is to say count of capital. Livestock being the main form of capital in the society of Moses's day, this instruction means "don't covet thy neighbor's capital". In modern times, Moses would have said