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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 81.0pt 153.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">For the staunch proponents of the superiority of the marketplace to, eventually one day, wield benign influence, they will have to be disempowered, because they systematically oppose laws and regulations that protect the public good and thus human rights. </span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">In the name of human rights, isn’t there thus an ethical obligation to actually guide the market’s invisible hand? Isn’t intervention, therefore, legitimate when supply and demand dramatically go off-course to the detriment of human rights?  </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Aren’t we supposed to (or expected to) question the acquired, privileged rights of the elites and the standards of living the same afford them?</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/03/29/human-rights/the-protection-of-human-rights-and-the-market-fundamentalism-of-globalization-are-irreconcilable/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/03/29/human-rights/the-protection-of-human-rights-and-the-market-fundamentalism-of-globalization-are-irreconcilable/</font></a><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span></p>

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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">Claudio</span></font></span></p></span></font></div>