To: Girlene
Give the word inevitable in the first line a good hard look. If I am buying cheap goods made in China under questionable circumstances, are all the parts of the economic system working fairly? Maybe yes, maybe no—more often than not, I’d bet no. (Which isn’t to say that I am clean on the issue—but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t an issue.)
75 posted on
11/27/2013 8:17:53 PM PST by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
To: Hieronymus
Allright...if that's the way you want to interpret it. So, how about this? IMO, this is off-base.
No to the inequality which spawns violence
59. Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence. The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence, yet without equal opportunities the different forms of aggression and conflict will find a fertile terrain for growth and eventually explode. When a society whether local, national or global is willing to leave a part of itself on the fringes, no political programmes or resources spent on law enforcement or surveillance systems can indefinitely guarantee tranquility. This is not the case simply because inequality provokes a violent reaction from those excluded from the system, but because the socioeconomic system is unjust at its root. Just as goodness tends to spread, the toleration of evil, which is injustice, tends to expand its baneful influence and quietly to undermine any political and social system, no matter how solid it may appear. If every action has its consequences, an evil embedded in the structures of a society has a constant potential for disintegration and death. It is evil crystallized in unjust social structures, which cannot be the basis of hope for a better future. We are far from the so-called end of history, since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized.
96 posted on
11/27/2013 8:32:35 PM PST by
Girlene
(Hey, NSA!)
To: Hieronymus
Some countries have higher wages than others, this is not a crisis.
101 posted on
11/27/2013 8:36:16 PM PST by
GeronL
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