[lbo-talk] The Moral Case for Health Care

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Jul 29 14:45:17 PDT 2009


Chris Doss wrote:
> Passion and emotion are an enormous political force that can easily override cool calculation. *cough cough* the Holocaust *cough cough*
>
This is exactly backwards. What made the Holocaust possible was the rational, bureaucratic calculation. If the Nazis had been "overwhelmed" by passion and emotion, they wouldn't have been able to effectively plan the deaths of millions of people.

Miles



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