On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Raghu: If you deny that capitalist exploitation is morally wrong, what is
> it exactly that you have against capitalism anyway?
>
> I certainly do deny that it is "morally wrong"; I don't even know what such
> a proposition means!
>
You didn't answer the second and most crucial part of my question there: if
it is not morally wrong, what is it that you have against capitalism
anyway?
Why do you want to push it and why do you care if it falls or not?
> In the first place it is sloppy. I take it that you do not object to
> "feudal" exploitation, only to _capitalist_ exploitation.
>
Wow, wait! Where did you get that from?
> Ignoring that sloppiness, how can an abstraction ("exploitation") be either
> right or wrong "morally"?
>
Are we just arguing about choice of words? Is, say, "slavery" also an
abstraction? Is it incorrect to think that slavery is morally wrong?
> If only Raghu rather than the Walmart family owned WallMart all would be
> well.
>
I wouldn't want to own WalMart any more than I would want to own slaves. I
find it morally abhorrent to possess obscene amounts of wealth.
What is *your* objection to WalMart exactly?
-raghu.
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