- 06 Dec 2016 04:40
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Then please allow me the opportunity to clarify that this accusation of yours is not actually an argument but instead is merely an insulting strawman. I originally decided not to call attention to it because it implies a certain immaturity.
Please note that I do not call you or your ideological colleagues "fruitbats" nor do I reduce their nuanced and rational views to "irrational hatred for" anyone.
My criticisms of capitalism are based on the idea that capiatlists, like everyone else, operate in their own self-interest.
I firmly believe that your strawman is irrational, yes. And since I do not support any irrational hatred of shopkeepers, it does not matter to me that it is irrational.
Please engage oher posters and ignore my posts from now on. Thank you.
Now, back to the topic:
Capitalism as a global system is also exacerbating or causing problems such as the loss of jobs to cheaper overseas manufacturing facilities. The probelm with this and e other problems I mentioned is that the solutions to these problems (in this case, a deliberate choice towards local economies) are not present in capitalism nor are they logically consistent with capitalism. If buying local tomatoes makes less money for the rich, why should they shift their economic weight in that direction?
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...
SolarCross wrote:You know I can play your moronic "logic" games as well:
At NO point did you deny or refute my assertion that "no one but a few fruitbats shares your irrational hatred for shopkeepers",
Then please allow me the opportunity to clarify that this accusation of yours is not actually an argument but instead is merely an insulting strawman. I originally decided not to call attention to it because it implies a certain immaturity.
Please note that I do not call you or your ideological colleagues "fruitbats" nor do I reduce their nuanced and rational views to "irrational hatred for" anyone.
My criticisms of capitalism are based on the idea that capiatlists, like everyone else, operate in their own self-interest.
THEREFORE you agree and concede by default that this assertion is CORRECT in every detail, that you DO hate shopkeepers and that hatred IS irrational.
I firmly believe that your strawman is irrational, yes. And since I do not support any irrational hatred of shopkeepers, it does not matter to me that it is irrational.
FURTHERMORE it logically follows that since by your own tacit admission you are in the habit of making your irrational hatreds the focus of your beliefs that your comments and arguments are about as credible and worthy of serious consideration as some poor sad mental patient who witlessly claims to be the second coming of Napoleon despite all evidence to the contrary. THUS you are not worth engaging in any way.
You have my pity but I can not waste my time on you so I will engage the other posters instead.
Please engage oher posters and ignore my posts from now on. Thank you.
Now, back to the topic:
Capitalism as a global system is also exacerbating or causing problems such as the loss of jobs to cheaper overseas manufacturing facilities. The probelm with this and e other problems I mentioned is that the solutions to these problems (in this case, a deliberate choice towards local economies) are not present in capitalism nor are they logically consistent with capitalism. If buying local tomatoes makes less money for the rich, why should they shift their economic weight in that direction?
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...