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- From: mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: "Keep Your Pollution!" (Article)
- Message-ID: <3601@execu.execu.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 15:13:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.184512.13509@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <JMC.92Jul29145701@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul29.233204.23999@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul29.233204.23999@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
- >I just would have liked the
- >people who lived there given the chance to make their own decisions
- >when they still could, rather than once they had become intoxicated on
- >the same ideas that most of us are.
-
- So, the problem is that "The West" "forced" our ideas of morality on
- the Third World nations. And once we did, they liked them so much
- that they became intoxicated on them and could not return to their
- old ways even when they gained nominal independence. I think the
- "Rise of Islam" proves that nations can return to their old ways.
- Of course their old ways don't have much respect for the freedom of
- the individual, but that out-moded morality has been doomed to
- failure by the theoreticians for a long time now. Individuals don't
- need freedom, they must work for the greater glory of The State.
-