On 9/14/06, jdiebremse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is "huge profits"? Is there some level of profits for these companies that you would accept as not being "huge"? Particularly after accounting for the fact that companies which provide services to the military naturally find their services to be in much greater demand during wartime than in peacetime?
I don't think there is an economic formula in existence that justifies making money in a cause for which people are giving their very lives. To justify war profits with supply and demand is to put economics ahead of life. Not one cent that anybody made was worth the lives of those who gave their lives and limbs for a war. Not one. You can't put Wes and all the rest on your balance sheet.
Also, do you have a problem with defense companies making sub-standard profits during peacetime? Do you believe that defense companies should receive profits during wartime that would compensate them in the long run for the risks they beared while their services were not in much demand during peacetime?
I believe that anything that creates economic incentives for war is wrong. The greater the incentive, the more wrong it is. Yet it happens all the time. I hope and pray that the vast majority of people still believe that making profits from death and destruction is wrong, that every red cent is tainted with the blood of the fallen, even if it can be justified by economics. -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
