So, you are taking active steps to help being about this longed-for Apocalypse? Or you are morally OK because you just hoping and that's innocent? If Kant (and most of modern Anglo-American law) is right, bad intentions are what make bad acts bad, and wishing evil on people is a culpable state of mind.
Politically speaking, would you like to go to explain to workers that you hope for the destruction of the economy, the loss of their jobs, savings (if any), retirement funds, homes, and to see them plunged into destitution the better to radicalize them and turn them against the capitalist system? Do you think they would regard this as a reason to trust you or a recommendation for your point of view?
Oh, don't worry, you can say, the professional-managerial types are the ones who will really be destroyed; the bosses haven't paid you enough so that the difference between hanging on and destitution will really not mean a lot to you. You don't own stocks, have no savings, may merely rent your house. From your new vantage point in a cardboard box under East Wacker Drive, you can gloat about how much relatively worse off the professors, accountants, doctors, and lawyers are, because they lost, relatively speaking, so much more than you. Then you will want to join the Red Action Brigade or whatever. That should be really persuasive, both before the sky falls and after, if it does.
--- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On 08/10/07 02:04:57 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> > Hoping for catastrophe is worse than a crime. It
> is a
> > mistake.
>
> To paraphrase Auden: Hoping makes nothing happen.
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