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There are several different polar opposites contained in our language. Good and evil is an often used comparison. Flesh and spirit is a contrast mentioned over and over again in the Bible. But in economics the terms private and public and more likely to be found. Oddly, perhaps, there is a lot that is common with these and other contrasts. This is important because a discussion on what a private market looks like as contrasted with a public one, is also a reference to how can we live in faith, rather than as flesh. It also refers to what it means to be good, rather than evil. The converse is also true, if we wish to understand what it means to live in the spirit and embrace good, we need to understand privatization when seen as an absolute opposite of public ownership by the state.