Re: Re: Re: reparations

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

"William S. Lear" wrote:

>  Second, this rather pathetic belief that
> Capitalism is Evil, and not a highly complex intertwined mix of
> variegated Good and Bad.

The first point judges the second. The view that capitalism is
a mixture of Good and Bad is as pathetic, and for the same
reasons (its moralism and metaphysical arrogance) as the
view that capitalism is Evil. Capitalism is destructive of the
lives and happiness of those it exploits, and the survival of
the species may depend on its destruction. But throwing
around moral absolutes is, as Bill's post says, pathetic.

It is a strange kind of arithmetic that tries to compare
numerically the suffering of a world that exists with the
hypothetical suffering of a world that does not exist.
I wish Doug and Lou would stop trivializing real
arguments by changing them into mortar shells to lob
at each other.

Carrol