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To: arun gera who wrote (64360)5/27/2005 7:52:20 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
In the nineteenth century opium was legal almost everywhere in the western world. A lot of fortunes were based on the opium trade. The Chinese were the first to outlaw it at the end of the eighteenth century, probably because it drained their treasury.

ctrl.org



To: arun gera who wrote (64360)5/28/2005 12:44:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74559
 
Arun, I think you are unduly cynical. Not everyone operates solely on profit. The slavery of Britain was opposed not for profit but for ethics. Google would help you find the origins of the anti-slavery ideas.

"On Liberty" wasn't written in India, China, or Africa, where such ideas have a very tenuous grip or are outright forbidden.

Dalits in India are still not considered fully human [as far as I know].

Mqurice


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