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To: MindBender26

1) Totalitarianism wouldn't be attractive if it didn't claim to correct otherwise insoluable injustices.

2) Totalitarians aren't always honest about their real goals as opposed to their PR goals.

Your examples have nothing to do with the criticism of libertarian capitalism.


41 posted on 10/02/2005 5:59:28 AM PDT by SeriousSassy (I know manure when I step in it!)
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To: SeriousSassy
>1) Totalitarianism wouldn't be attractive if it didn't claim to correct otherwise insoluable injustices.

Don't know if the injustices are insolvable. It's just that Totalitarianism often prevents the solutions it promises.

>2) Totalitarians aren't always honest about their real goals as opposed to their PR goals.

> Totalitarians ARE RARELY honest about their real goals as opposed to their PR goals.

> Your examples have nothing to do with the criticism of libertarian capitalism.

True, they were in response to your comment "Regulatory efforts without cultural change are simply steps toward totalitarianism."

My point is, that when just and moral, regulatory change can lead to advantageous cultural change, as opposed for the need for cultural change to proceed enabling/enforcing regulation.
43 posted on 10/02/2005 8:00:22 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: SeriousSassy
>1) Totalitarianism wouldn't be attractive if it didn't claim to correct otherwise insoluable injustices.

Don't know if the injustices are insolvable. It's just that Totalitarianism often prevents the solutions it promises.

>2) Totalitarians aren't always honest about their real goals as opposed to their PR goals.

> Totalitarians ARE RARELY honest about their real goals as opposed to their PR goals.

> Your examples have nothing to do with the criticism of libertarian capitalism.

True, they were in response to your comment "Regulatory efforts without cultural change are simply steps toward totalitarianism."

My point is, that when just and moral, regulatory change can lead to advantageous cultural change, as opposed for the need for cultural change to proceed enabling/enforcing regulation.

Regulatory efforts before cultural change needn't lead to totalitarianism. They can be a beneficial "tipping point."

44 posted on 10/02/2005 8:02:19 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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