From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 20:43:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE3B37B68A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA26209; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:43:01 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:43:01 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005170343.UAA26209@sharmas.dhs.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Extreme political views (Was Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?) In-Reply-To: <200005170210.TAA09486@usr05.primenet.com> References: <200005170210.TAA09486@usr05.primenet.com> Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > > > Pointing to a corrupt regime that pays lip service to the idea of > Capitalism, but is in fact an ideological cesspool in no way proves > anything. > > You are effectively arguing against the existance of altruism; when > someone does this, I generally conclude that they read Ayn Rand at > an early age, and bought into the idea of the Aristotilian mean > that allows people to ask questions like "Yes or no: have you > stopped beating your wife?", and expect answers. The problem here > is that there are not only two answers, and your argument excludes > the middle from consideration. > If you go back and read the thread, I was precisely arguing against this kind of black and white portrayal of communism and capitalism (communism = evil, capitalism = success, prosperity). I brought up the Indian state of Kerala as an example where communism wasn't bad for the people - not as a model state. The state has its own set of problems due to the lack of any major industry. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message