From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 28 5:23:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5EB37B40D for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 05:23:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f8SCNFN08749 ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:23:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id OAA08670 ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:23:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:23:14 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: David Schwartz , paul@freebsd-services.com, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010928142314.B7471@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010927205547.B69066@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> <20010927213312.C69066@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB43B65.C3ED251F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB43B65.C3ED251F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:57:09AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert said on Sep 28, 2001 at 01:57:09: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Capitalism is also a religion to many people in the US, because they > > aren't willing to admit that there may be deficiencies in the > > capitalist world view, that free markets don't cure all ills. It is > > correct, everything else is wrong, infidel, dangerous. In the 1950s > > many of America's best and brightest people were persecuted by this > > capitalist (anti-communist) dogma. > > Standard Oil. IBM. Microsoft. Antitrust. Enough said. No, say some more. Antitrust is a capitalist idea. It is also a good idea, I happen to think, though the Republicans disagree. It doesn't follow that all capitalist ideas are good ideas, if that's what you're implying -- if not, I don't understand what you're implying at all. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message