The loss of standards
LewRockwell.Com
by David Calderwood
03/05/07
The tenor of moral standards is moving toward the complete utilitarian justification of force. As our top elected officials have said, ‘All options are on the table.’ This sort of thinking is already operational in the Drug War, where the absurd notion of imprisoning persons for their own good has enjoyed decades of popular support. The rot in Western Civilization (especially in the USA) is clear whether one examines the foregoing political/moral facet or conditions in the economic sphere. Manufacturing has declined in the US in favor of service provision, with weapons production becoming one of the last remaining bastions of power in the former and financial machinations the dominant element of the latter...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood13.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/calderwood
by David Calderwood
03/05/07
The tenor of moral standards is moving toward the complete utilitarian justification of force. As our top elected officials have said, ‘All options are on the table.’ This sort of thinking is already operational in the Drug War, where the absurd notion of imprisoning persons for their own good has enjoyed decades of popular support. The rot in Western Civilization (especially in the USA) is clear whether one examines the foregoing political/moral facet or conditions in the economic sphere. Manufacturing has declined in the US in favor of service provision, with weapons production becoming one of the last remaining bastions of power in the former and financial machinations the dominant element of the latter...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood13.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/calderwood
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