This deserves its own thread in the World News forum, I think.
Actions cannot be justified after the fact.
Could it be that the President is wrong? Could it be that his attempt to take a seriously stupid action is actually evil? There is no moral basis for him to do what he is planning or considering or deciding doing. Those who would be hurt of killed would as far as we know be innocents who had nothing to do with the use of chemical weapons.
So America and its allies had no idea of these atrocities until the end of WWII?
This particular news item is five years old. What has taken place and is now taking place in India since then is a continuing story of how GMO technology is being reconsidered, or rejected in India, while most of Europe has rejected US based GMO technology.
Actions cannot be justified after the fact.
Could it be that the President is wrong? Could it be that his attempt to take a seriously stupid action is actually evil? There is no moral basis for him to do what he is planning or considering or deciding doing. Those who would be hurt of killed would as far as we know be innocents who had nothing to do with the use of chemical weapons.
I had not heard about it and think it is a subject important enough to be worthy of its own thread; if it is 5 years old (I never check these things), maybe put it in Social Justice?
As far as I know, at the beginning of the war we knew that the Nazis were interning enemies of the Reich. Many of these people were later discovered to have been worked or starved to death, bit at this time it does not seem that the Nazis yet had camps built for the specifc purpose of killing massive numbers of people; that seems not to have begun until we were already in the war.
OK, I stand corrected.
Those who own multiple house, cars, etc. provide jobs to those who build the those things.
What about greed and the abnormal need for power and prestige? Should these things be encouraged?Those who own multiple house, cars, etc. provide jobs to those who build the those things.
Where would you draw the line? A suburban apartment dweller’s hunting shack on a few acres in the mountains so he can supplement his store-bought diet? a family renting out a house to supplement an inadequate pension plan? A doctor’s vacation house for his family?
Not what we as Catholics should do, but aside from my last post, society should implement tax laws that tax those with large incomes much more severely than those with modest incomes; and doing away with all the tax breaks that the rich now enjoy.
Are you saying that people who built the investor’s extra houses/cars that the should not have a decent paying job because the person who is buying the product has, in your way of thinking, to much money?? ?
What is a ‘large income’ and what percent should the law put on them? 50%? 75%? 100%? or maybe 150%?
This was meant as a separate question.Are you saying that people who built the investor’s extra houses/cars that the should not have a decent paying job because the person who is buying the product has, in your way of thinking, to much money?? ?
Do you mean by the taxes paid by the ‘rich’ (those who have more then you do)? I do not know about you, but if I had to choose between being payed by someone who hired me to do a job for them or a ‘pay check’ from the ‘urban renewal projects’ (ie the government) if I did my ‘job’ or not, I would choose the former and not the latter one. Less taxes per person paid all around.
My father was fond of describing so-called trickle-down economics as trickle-on economics, since that seems to be what happens more often than not to the people at the bottom…Those who own multiple house, cars, etc. provide jobs to those who build the those things.
Do you mean that people who build things for other people are not paid for their jobs or that there are people that would rather do without then to pay someone to do something for them?
The Holocaust involved acual crime. It was the crime of murder. There were trials and convictions. There were people who committed evil acts. Poverty is not trivial. but the comparison to the Holocaust is so thin as to be almost non-existent. They are both “bad”. That’s about it.