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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (32322)	10/12/2001 11:35:14 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I was going to post a beautiful poem by Kipling the other day, but it looked too much Falwellian with it's reference to Nineveh. Kipling was not deluded.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (32322)	10/13/2001 1:03:10 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't know what the feelings were about opium trading at the time... certainly cocaine was legal in the UK, and I believe opium needed at most a doctor's prescription. So possibly it was seen as no worse than (say) profiting from tobacco trading today, if that... lucrative if not ethically perfect? Even the slave trade used to be perfectly reputable, after all.