At 02:07 PM 9/26/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>> >> You have utterly neglected twice now, that Americans have had no
>> >> problem with the insurance, mortuary, construction and defence
>> >> industries profitting from the deaths of people for years.
>> >
>> >I did not see a reason to respond to it.
>>
>> Jeroen, you asked if it was moral to make a profit off of death.
>>
>> I provided dive examples of entire industries devoted to making profit
>> off of death.
>
>I also *specifically* related it to the destruction (and rebuilding) of the
>World Trade Center. I think that making a profit by selling life insurance
>is something quite different from eventually making a profit off a tragedy
>this huge.
Given that you have lately taken to accusing me of not reading your posts,
I should point out that I specifically cited the example of the
construtcion industry in my original post.
I noted that construction firms have repeatedly earned profits while
rebuilding after hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, floods, etc. and the
morality of this has never been questioned.
So, when the dikes break in the Netherlands, and people die, do they let
construction companies earn profit?
JDG
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"Freedom itself was attacked today, and Freedom will be Defended."
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