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Moral or Immoral (was Re: Cuba)
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Mon, 3 Sep 2001 05:25:15 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> Capitalism is based on the premise that no central mechanism can do as • well
> at determining the right quantities as well as individual choice. It's • based
> on the premise that people should work hard or not, as they choose, and
> suffer the consequences individually.
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> That makes capitalism moral and communism immoral. That's a good enough
> argument right there.
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I'm not just picking on Larry here, but I think this is a good time to ask:
Moral or immoral according to who?
Not just in relation to communism but in general.
This is an excerpt from something that is stuck on my fridge:
'The manner in which we think is governed by our attitudes, our beliefs &
our values. These are the product of our lives and what our cultural &
social upbringing has taught us." -author unknown
So with this in mind, which of these are moral & which immoral?
* Living in luxury while others live/die in poverty.
* Governments taking peoples possesions.
* Intervening in other countrys political systems (democratic or otherwise).
* Refusing the landing of asylum seekers.
* Standing by whilst genocide takes place in other countrys.
* Using the lives of innocent children for leverage/manipulation.
* Risking the lives of others for your own benefit (financial or otherwise).
* Women appearing in public with a man other than their husband.
* Homosexuality.
* Abortion.
* Pornography
* Experiments on animals.
* ......
How do we collectively decide what is moral or immoral?
Carl
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| (...) The speaker/writer. An action is moral to the extent that it satisfies one's sense of aesthetic about how the world should work. So charging interest on a loan is moral to the capitalist who believes that this fuels the economy making greater (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Maybe you should have said that in the first place instead of Standard Anti US Diatribe # 8294, then. However it's not a statement that I agree with, except inasmuch as it's not possible to determine with certainty (from any real world (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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