From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 27 14:36:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1325A37B403 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010927213645.TBWB3482.femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ATLANTA.threespace.com> for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:36:45 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010927171200.0181fef0@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:18:43 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: helping victims of terror In-Reply-To: <20010927213312.C69066@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> <20010927205547.B69066@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:33 PM 9/27/2001, you wrote: >Someone once remarked that communism is a religion, because no >communist is willing to name a mistake or failing of its founders >(Marx, Lenin, etc); only gods don't make mistakes. True enough. >Capitalism is also a religion to many people in the US, because they >aren't willing to admit that there may be deficiencies in the >capitalist world view, that free markets don't cure all ills. It is >correct, everything else is wrong, infidel, dangerous. In the 1950s >many of America's best and brightest people were persecuted by this >capitalist (anti-communist) dogma. You have so many inaccurate characterizations of Americans that I begin to wonder where you get them from. Show me the American that thinks capitalism is without flaws. Does any American on this list believe it? The greatest right in America is bitching about the ills of this country, and we exercise it to the fullest. Perhaps the difference is that we sort of "keep it in the family" and deal with it domestically (where we are undoubtedly most concerned), but I have yet to meet the American that doesn't have a gripe with our economic structure. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message