Anniversary

Joe R. Golowka joeg at ieee.org
Wed Sep 11 15:35:39 PDT 2002


Luke Weiger wrote:
> Well, let's assume (as Marc Herold did) the Taliban's estimates are
> accurate. If so, the number dead would be somewhere around 5,000--horrible,
> but probably justified given the apparent end results.

By that warped logic 9-11 was a justified blow against the evil empire since the 3,000 dead would also be justifiable.

-- Joe R. Golowka JoeG at ieee.org Anarchist FAQ -- http://www.anarchyfaq.org

"According to the libertarian litany, if an industry or an institution is making a profit, it is satisfying "wants" whose origins and content are deliberately disregarded. But what we want, what we are capable of wanting is relative to the forms of social organization. People "want" fast food because they have to hurry back to work, because processed supermarket food doesn't taste much better anyway, because the nuclear family (for the dwindling minority who have even that to go home to) is too small and too stressed to sustain much festivity in cooking and eating -- and so forth. It is only people who can't get what they want who resign themselves to want more of what they can get. Since we cannot be friends and lovers, we wail for more candy." - Bob Black



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