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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (6220)	9/14/2007 4:20:16 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 13056

An argument that international investment and trade makes third would people less well off would largely be largely "an issue of economics". If you abandon economics you really have to abandon such assertions as part of your argument. If you abandon such assertions what do you have left? Are you just saying that multinational corporations employing third world people (either directly, or by trading with local companies who hire them) is immoral no matter what the result? If that's your assertion, its a bizarre one, and also one that you have failed to explicitly make to this point. If that's not your assertion than what is? You say its "right and wrong", but what is the wrong? You not only don't support any specific assertion about what is immoral, you don't even make the assertion in the first place, you just say that corporations are demonic.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (6220)	9/14/2007 6:06:09 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

If you're of the opinion that economic advancement is immoral, then we have no common ground upon which we can discuss things. If you think a repressed society is more "moral" than an economically developed society, then we have no common ground. If you think it is more "moral" to keep a hands off policy while people starve than to provide a means for them to survive, then we have no common ground. Your "morality" promotes pain, poverty, destruction, and famine. No thanks, I'll permit you to think me immoral while you pursue your genocidal path to heaven.