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Thread #64838   Message #1067974
Posted By: Little Hawk
08-Dec-03 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Good Things about the Iraq Occupation
Subject: RE: BS: The Good Things about the Iraq Occupatio
The World gives you back what you give the World. This is known by good, honest business people everywhere.

Aggressors need to remember it too, whether they are big fish like the USA and Britain or small fish like Saddam Hussein.

The sole purpose of business is not profit, profit is simply one useful side effect of doing a useful service. There is no sole purpose to business, but many purposes, and among them the most important may be "doing something useful and desirable that benefits both the doer and the receiver". A service that was merely a "break-even" proposition would be far more useful to society than a hugely profitable service that benefited a few and harmed many.

Profit divorced from wider consequence is an empty and ignorant concept, worthy of criminal gangs, not honest businesspeople, and it is the habit of looking at life in isolated fragments rather than as a whole experience which leads to such empty and ignorant practices. It also leads to war.

- LH