BTW, does anyone think there is something unexplained with the what happened to the plane in Somerset County, PA? I heard reports that wreckage was scattered 8 miles away and I have yet to see a clear image of the impact crater. This leads me to believe that the plane may have exploded or was shot down (there are Air Guard stations in Pittsburgh and Martinsburg, WV).
----- Original Message ----- 送信者 : "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> 宛先 : <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> 送信日時 : Friday, September 14, 2001 13:48 件名 : Re: (no subject)
> >>Ah. Now we're getting into "Their Morals and Ours" territory... Is it
> >>more immoral for the United States to issue an ultimatum to
> >>Afghanistan (if it is indeed Osama bin Laden's group that is
> >>responsible) and to follow through (if bin Laden and company are not
> >>delivered) with massive retaliation (and thus to kill innocent
> >>civilians by the office-tower-load)? Or is it more immoral not to
> >>take actions that kill yet more innocent civilians by the
> >>office-tower-load, and thus to teach every fanatic for the next
> >>century that large-scale terrorism is a really effective way of
> >>getting the world's attention, and has little downside, and so set
> >>the table for even more massive civilian casualties in the more
> >>distant future?
> >>
> >>I don't know the answer. One reason I do economics and not political
> >>science is that even thinking about such questions leaves me
> >>profoundly depressed...
> >>
> >>Brad DeLong
> >
> >This is one of the most revealing comments I've seen you make, Brad.
> >Something that fascinates me about economics is the abstraction that
> >is involved and the way that aids in sanitizing capitalism's basic
> >grubbiness and insulating the observer from the sheer brutality that
> >fills the marketplace. You guys seem content just to twiddle with
> >your globalistic formulas -- math is the fun part, as you say -- and
> >set them loose in the field via outfits like the IMF; then, boom!,
> >when the natives revolt and Indonesia is torn apart or the
> >WTC/Pentagon is blown up, the political scientists are left with the
> >hard work, tackling thorny moral problems that never should have
> >arisen in the first place.
> >
> >Carl
>
> Sheer brutality that fills the marketplace? Indonesia where working
> class standards of living today are four times what they were a third
> of a century ago?
>
> I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to drop out of this list. Too many
> ignorant fools, and its pushing me rightward into a place where I
> don't want to be.
>
>
> Brad DeLong