Because I don't think people work that way. They want to see themselves as just and faor and decent. Not caring about whether other live or die is not an attitude most peoplea associate with being a good person.
I find it odd that in a list full of Marxists, it takes a liberal democrat to remind you of what old Whiskers used to say, that he painted the capitalist in no sense coleur de rose, but that after all the guy was just a bearer of social relations. It serves no point to malign them as individuals -- some deserve it, some don't. But the problem isn't bad apples. It's the barrel.
jks
--- ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> > Luke's OK. He just misreads you as saying that you
> > think that capitalists rub their hands together
> and
> > laugh with glee when babies are bayoneted, as long
> as
> > the balance sheet is positive. I'd be pretty
> skeptical
> > of that idea too. Like I said, I think they really
> > think their interests coincide with the interests
> of
> > the human race.
> >
>
> if we are speculating about people's thoughts, why
> not the more
> parsimonious view that they just don't care? there
> seems to be some
> evidence for it, in the wide range of human actions
> ranging from running
> down squirrels with our automobiles to supporting
> oppressive dictators.
>
> --ravi
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