(April 10, 2016 at 2:38 am)paulpablo Wrote: Also I don't know if you were sarcastic when you said America bombs places that reject the free market, America doesn't have a complete free market and a corporation if it's run by the state isn't free market if I understand correctly.
Additionally when you say "we" profit, I don't know who "we" means but surely it's not all Americans who profit from the wars. Wars cost the tax payer trillions.
"We" profit certainly does not include the average American. However, since our politicians are generally more-heavily influenced by large donors (billionaires and corporations) than by the common people (who are generally influenced by the work of media outlets that serve the interest of said corporations and billionaires via propaganda designed to fool people who don't want to think too much, and prefer their information pre-digested.
The American taxpayers foot the bill while the companies rake in billions. If you think I'm just making this up, look up the speech by President Eisenhower (former five-star general and Commander of the Allied armies) about the Military-Industrial Complex.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
