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167 comments on Countdown to $200 oil meets Anglo Disease

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Jerome a Paris on June 8, 2008 - 1:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"mitigating circumstances" is exactly what it is. It is ironic that we are in an epoch that claims that individual freedom and responsibility trumps everything, and where there is an incessant drumbeat to make sure that people use their "freedom" in the proscribed way.

It's like "democracy" around the world: a country that "freely" choose to ally itslef with the USA will be labelled a democracy, while one that uses its freedom to be hostile will be denigrated and called a dictature or worse. We have responsibility, and we have the "right" choice. You can't mix and match.

So yes, there are mitigating circumstances - although not for the cheerleaders of "freedom."

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joemichaels on June 9, 2008 - 1:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Jerome - I really believed all of the stories growing up about the U.S. being the greatest country on earth and the missionary zeal that Americans tried to spread "freedom". I lived abroad in the Philipines for over a year when I was a kid and the fact that the Philipinos had so much less only served as evidence of our obvious superiority.

I was in my second year in college when I had a sociology course and in the testbook was a cartoon of a group of pirates raising the Jolly Roger exclaiming "Aye it's a grand flag". It made me laugh but from then on I started questioning things.

Now when I consider all that we've done to "F" up the planet we really are the easy villains, but unlike the Nazis in old WWII pictures we seemed to have started out with the best of intentions.

Is stupidity a crime?

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PeakPlus on June 9, 2008 - 6:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"called a dictature"
Nah, just socialist, like Yerup is. The Germans, for instance:-)
Cheers from Munique

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