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From: Sean Adams
T1: adamss78@hotmail.com
Date: 10/22/99
Time: 10:40:03 AM
Remote Name: 216.164.181.235
Morality is a concept, and does not exist except for on a subjective level. You cannot institute morality in the way that you can institute imperialism, or capitalism. Capitalism is a system, or "blueprint," from which citizens of a capitalist society cannot break free. I do not have a choice whether or not to participate in capitalism; everything I do, from burning the gas that fuels my car to typing on this keyboard, has been derived from capitalism.
Thus you cannot consider it inherently "wrong" to use "immoral" practices in establishing a business in a third-world country; that's your opinion, to which you're entirely entitled, but it is not a general one. As has been illustrated in previous articles we have read on this subject, the establishment of imperialist capitalist businesses in third-world countries is what makes them thirds-world; in many cases, prior to the invasion by the West, third-world countries functioned very well. Of course, you have starvation in any society, but it only increases when a different system, designed to enslave and eliminate, intrudes.
As I mentioned, morality is subjective and thus in no way general; thus, you cannot have a "moral capitalist imperialist." A subjective idea cannot be wholly inducted into a generalized system. The only "moral" thing to do ("moral" being used in the sense of "helpful") would be to withdraw all imperialist business from the third-world countries, inject their societies with enough money to reestablish their former structure, and brainwash them in order to eliminate any remembrance of what "imperialism" is. They have been infected, and no single "moral" businessman can go in and change that. I do not disagree with you; it would be nice, and ideal, and happy happy happy, but in no way is it realistic.
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