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Some would argue that a lifetime of depression causes more pain than a quick death by sword or plague. The goal is to eliminate suffering, not create new kinds.
by bigmanwalter 9y ago
Some would argue that a lifetime of depression causes more pain than a quick death by sword or plague. The goal is to eliminate suffering, not create new kinds.
- WalterBright 9y agoI suspect your preference for death by being chopped up or plague would evaporate if you were faced with it. (Perhaps you don't know that death by sword was hardly quick. Death from sword injuries usually came hours or days later of agony. Star Wars has perpetrated a myth that hacking someone with a sword is somehow elegant and civilized.)
- bigmanwalter 9y agoDepression can last many years. I doubt you would brush it away so quickly if you'd ever experienced it. Please note that my preference is to rid the world of both.
- WalterBright 9y agoSuch depression is a medical condition, not a result of capitalism.
- bigmanwalter 9y agoPTSD is a medical condition, and is the result of capitalism's wars. Medical conditions and the results of capitalism aren't mutually exclusive. For another example, consider cancers and other health problems brought on by unregulated pollution.
- WalterBright 9y agoSocialists start lots of wars. Poland under communism became the most polluted country on the planet. Capitalism provides the surplus necessary to deal with pollution.
- bigmanwalter 9y agoLaissez faire capitalism has horrifically polluted our planet. Our climate is fucked. It is only through socially minded policies that we might fix it.