Re: Call Me A Liberal

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From: Russell Senior
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:29

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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim  <tim@stonerise.com> writes:

Russell> Great!  Let's reinstitute slavery then and be done with it.
Russell> I mean, why all the duplicity?  It is inefficient and
Russell> interferes with our "self interests".

Tim> It might seem duplicitious, however many countries effecting a
Tim> "holier than thou" attitude toward US policies practice slavery
Tim> and indentured servitude.

I find interesting the psychological need to see critics as
hypocrits.  Even if they are, that does not absolve the crime.

Tim> Regardless, you are apparently confusing foreign policy with
Tim> domestic policy.  Slavery would be a domestic policy.  

No, slavery _was_ a domestic policy.  I wasn't referring to it so
narrowly.  Our current legal constraint against it is more general
than the previous institution.

Re: automation, how do you explain Nike and, more broadly, China?  If
automation were more efficient than slavery, why wouldn't we
manufacture everything here with machines?


-- 
Russell Senior         ``The two chiefs turned to each other.        
seniorr@aracnet.com      Bellison uncorked a flood of horrible       
                         profanity, which, translated meant, `This is
                         extremely unusual.' ''

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From: Russell Senior <seniorr@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Call Me A Liberal
Date: 30 Jul 2002 19:29:07 -0700
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