On 5/1/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> ravi wrote:
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> > On 1 May, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> > > Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> > >> What in the world are you saying? What does this have to do with
> > >> the question? Why are you saying this? The question was, questions
> > >> that you have not answered:
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> > > The question James is answering in the affirmative is "Can the human
> > > species thrive while 6 billion of them drive luxury automobiles?" You
> > > are contemptuous of human possibility for suggesting a negative
> > > answer.
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> > Me too (contemptuous). The track record seems convincing enough,
> > without need for projections. Also, I am interested in more than just
> > the human species thriving. [clip]
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> Jerry I guess did not see that my tone was sarcastic. One really can't
> communicate tone in e-mail. James's idiotic query about who to slaughter
> stems from his assumption (he will not accept this as a fair summary)
> that the only purpose of socialism is to make the mad capitalist
> proliferation of infinite goodies available to all 6billion, 10 billion,
> however many. Production must be infinite and the earth must support
> that infinity.
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> I seldom read the whole of Heartfield's posts, or even the whole of what
> other posters post. His assumptions are too detached from reality to
> make his deductions from them of interest.
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> Carrol
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