The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48038   Message #722172
Posted By: Ebbie
03-Jun-02 - 01:45 PM
Thread Name: Anti-Conscription Movement
Subject: RE: Anti-Conscription Movement
The problem with capitalism, in my view, is that it is driven by cynicism. 'Collateral damage', whether it is the fallout from the old greedy-banker-foreclosing-on-the-widow's-family-farm syndrome to the children put at risk by invading forces putting things right to sailors being unknowing guinea pigs for toxic products to the literal fallout from nuclear tests onto innocent farmers and their crops which make their way into the citizens' bodies and into the food chain, is somehow acceptable, mostly because it is 'free enterprise'.

I can see the logistical value in sacrificing 1,000 people for the sake of 100,000 but I question the value of sacrificing today what will prove of ominous importance in all of our tomorrows. And so many times we know better.