Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:15:41 -0700 From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> To: <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010927151542.AAA26017@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> In-Reply-To: <8090000.1001510193@lobster.originative.co.uk>
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:16:33 +0100, Paul Richards wrote: >> The biggest problem I have with Communism is the desire to destroy all >>capitalist markets, even when it meant using military force. If >>Communists had historically been content with maintaining the social order >>of their countries, it might not have registered as such a threat on the >>radar of other countries. As it was however, it was such a threat that >>the U.S. decided to counter with its own agenda. >You should differentiate between communism and the USSR. Communism is an >idealogy and it is not one that demands that military force be used to >overthrow capitalist markets. Any ideology that includes the notion that private property is inherently coercive can be used to justify the use of force against those who practice it. >The idealogies don't always support the actions that some individuals >perform. Often only because of other errors in the ideology. For example, if some ideology claimed that having blonde hair was a crime comparable to murder, you can blame that ideology for justifying the killing or imprisoning of blonde people, even if that ideology also includes complete pacifism and the notion that only god can punish murders. The comission of a crime comparable to murder can reasonably justify the use of retaliatory lethal force, and thus so can the ideology even if it includes other unreasonable elements. You can't have two errors that cancel each other out and weigh that to the credit of the ideology. It takes full moral responsibility for every error in it individually. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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