"After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world’s nations convened in Geneva to outlaw for the first time an entire class of weapons. Barely 1 percent of the war’s battlefield deaths had come from toxic chemicals, yet these had evoked greater horror than the blast wounds, shrapnel and bullets that killed millions more." Washington Post<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/even-after-100000-deaths-in-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-evoked-visceral-response/2013/08/31/de6c2b3e-1277-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html>
After the guns of World War I fell silent, the world's nations, convened in Geneva, also<http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.ca/2013/02/labor-is-not-commodity_18.html>declared that "Labour should not be regarded merely as a commodity or article of commerce." Some people may not *immediately* grasp the connection between chemical weapons and regarding labour as a commodity. Some people may not immediately grasp the connection between campaign finance and political corruption, either. I could spell it out but it would be like explaining pictures to a dead hare (or teaching a pig to sing). The difference between the two kinds of proscriptions is that one of them was merely about dealing with social discord and decay long before it festered irretrievably into cataclysm and thus could be flouted with impunity. Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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