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To: TheCrusader

"greed is good. greed works."

If you trust God to protect us, then this deal should be of no concern to you, since we could not thwart the will of God or raise a finger in opposition to his might and power.

So since we are obviously talking about earthly things, and not about God's devine will, unless you have a plan to convert all the muslims to christianity (and realise that God himself has no such plan), you will have to accept that many people will be driven by far baser motives than yours.

Free market capitalism works because it exploits the natural desire of man to please himself and turns it into a force for the common good. I want to make money, you want to make money, we both make more money if I don't blow up your store because then you would blow up my store.

Government exists to make sure that a powerful person doesn't blow up everybody else, and other than that we just compete for money and somehow it makes us all wealthier and better off. The invisible hand makes our greed good.

In a perfect world, we would all be communists. But not godless communists, we would be god-filled communists, living under the all-powerful hand of the benevolent dictator to whom we would pledge our allegiance. And we would each contribute according to our abilities, and we would each receive according to our needs.

Marx promised people heaven on earth. That was his secret. Heaven without obedience, without God. It of course failed, because greedy people would let others work and take more than they needed.

Sorry to go down THAT road. All for a simple business transaction that does little more than change who gets to pocket the profits from the cargo shipping business, arabs in the UAE, or arab stockholders in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and whereever else the P&O stockholders lived.


2,621 posted on 02/21/2006 11:04:58 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
You my brother are absolutely right. But you are looking at this from a spiritual angle not carnal. Most because of their greed cant see past their portfolio.
2,779 posted on 02/22/2006 4:10:21 AM PST by Dewy (1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;)
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