[lbo-talk] The Moral Case for Health Care

[Matthias Wasser]

And to state the obvious: rationalized calculation and heated passion are
hardly mutually exclusive.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> 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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