From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 13:35:23 MDT
--- Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >...
> >
> >If you insist on having a pissing contest, we can do that, but I,
> and
> >many others on this list can easily demonstrate that socialism, in
> both
> >its internationalist and nationalist forms, initiated and
> perpetrated
> >the deaths of over 100 million people in the last century.
> >
> >Nationalism is the only other ism upon which even a fraction of that
> >many deaths can be heaped. Capitalism doesn't kill people. Corpses
> make
> >lousy customers.
> >
> >
> Try it this way: Capitalism doesn't kill as many people. That's
> appearantly true, and will probably remain true. The other is false.
>
> E.g., there's a city in Georgia that was intentionally poisoned by a
> chemical plant upstream of them. The chemical plant knew what it was
> doing, but calculated that it would be cheaper to pay the fines once
> it was discovered than to dispose of the chemicals safely. It was
> right,
> too, even though this information came out in the court hearing,
> including the premeditation.
>
> OTOH, I suppose that you could say that the people of the city
> weren't their customers anyway. But they were people.
Of course, you are confusing a business decision with a legal decision.
The aforementioned situation is a result of the un-capitalist portions
of our legal system, primarily those written under the pay of
mercantilist forces in the late 19th and early 20th century.
A capitalist system would cause both the fines and the cost of disposal
to be equal, so there would be no incentive to act with such immorality.
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