On 5 Jun 2009 at 19:20, Krimel wrote: > > Platt, > > Why not back up your own claim? lets see some numbers. > > Ron > > [Platt] > Begin with the Holocaust: 6 million killed. > > [Krimel] > It is interesting that you omit the Russians, Chinese and Cambodians this > time. It is hard to see how the economic system itself can be blamed for any > of them. > > On the other hand the blood on capitalism's hands is a direct consequence of > the system itself. The tobacco industry has been a major economic force in > the west for the past 400 years. It has been known that it kills people for > the past sixty years. Last year it killed five million people world wide. It > seems one of the problems with measuring Quality and Value in terms of Body > Count is deciding what counts.
You must be kidding, as if Russia, China, Cambodia and other non- capitalist countries don't grow, process and sell tobacco. Do you blame capitalism for millions of automobile deaths worldwide, too? What's really disturbing is your making the Holocaust morally equivalent to a legal tobacco industry. That's sick. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
