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The meanace is the State.

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The STATE is like the syringe that delivers the poison.

The poison is POWER.

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The STATE is like the syringe that delivers the poison.

The poison is POWER.

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Why is it that the world can sit by and destroy its greatest worth wich is the planet and not care .
That hat is on the heads of the capitalist.

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I think that hat is on everyone, whatever political / economic /teleological stripe, who climbs the ladder of success using the World and its inhabitants as stepping stones for society .


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Not true.

Capitalism requires only peaceful exchange.

Capitalism is trading what we produce for something someone else produced for our mutal beneficence.

No one has to work for anybody. Trading 10 rabbits for one deer is capitalism and no one exploits the other and no one works for anyone but themselves.

It will be up to the individuals involved in the trade how many rabbits for deer value is exchanged.

That all changes from moment to moment. To someone with three deer, 10 rabbits for one may seem fair. To a Man with only two deer, he may want 11 or `12 rabbits.

The rabbit owner will have to decide what value he attaches to rebbits and deer. Whatever the circumstance, because all the trading is voluntary, all parties benefit from the exchange or there is no deal. That's capitalism.

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Chris,

What you have described is the "Barter System". It is a perfect way of conducting buisness, person-to-person.

The Barter System is for honest people, while capitolism tends to make (some) people greedy, and dishonest.

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As Martin Lewis has pointed out, such claims fly in the face of serious anthropological studies of a number of North American tribes, who engaged in the wholesale destruction of wildlife and who routinely burned vast areas in order to facilitate their hunts. Indeed, Lewis maintains that "large areas of the American Midwest were apparently converted from heavy forest to tall-grass prairie under the continual pressure of Indian fire-setting."[35] Finally, anyone even casually acquainted with the views of Plains Indians and those of the Southwest regarding warfare or of the Iroquois toward the treatment of prisoners[36] can hardly take seriously the claim that Native Americans consistently "engaged in relationships of mutual respect, reciprocity, and caring" with their fellow human beings. Apparently, Booth and Jacobs are not aware of the fact that infanticide,[37] slavery,[38] and the killing of the aged and sick,[39] were not uncommon practices among aboriginal societies in North America.

There is probably no clearer example of the sloppy scholarship and dearth of careful analysis that pervades much environmental literature than the frequency with which Chief Seattle's words are quoted in support of the view that Native American societies live harmoniously and at one with nature while the "white man" does nothing but despoil and rape his natural habitat.[40] Seattle's environmental speech, known among ecologists as the "Fifth Gospel," consists of a collection of mawkish, saccharine comments about the beauties of nature (highlighted by references to "the rustle of insects' wings," and "the lonely cry of the whippoorwill") and man's intimate connection to the natural world. "If men spit upon the ground," Chief Seattle informs us, "they spit on themselves. This we know — the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth," and so on.[41] While Seattle, chief of the Duwamish, is an actual historical figure,[42] the speech with which he is credited was in fact written in 1972 by a screen writer for a film titled Home, made for the Southern Baptist Convention.[43] Yet, despite its origins, the speech is regularly quoted by environmental writers and enlisted in support of the view that primitive societies are environmentally superior to those that are technologically advanced.

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