[MD] Reductionism

[Krimel]

> > Platt,
> > Why not back up your own claim? lets see some numbers.
> > Ron
> 
> [Platt]
> Begin with the Holocaust: 6 million killed.
>  
> [Krimel]
> It is interesting that you omit the Russians, Chinese and Cambodians this
> time. It is hard to see how the economic system itself can be blamed for 
> any of them.
> 
> On the other hand the blood on capitalism's hands is a direct consequence 
> of the system itself. The tobacco industry has been a major economic force

> in the west for the past 400 years. It has been known that it kills people

> for the past sixty years. Last year it killed five million people world 
> wide. It seems one of the problems with measuring Quality and Value in 
> terms of Body Count is deciding what counts. 

[Platt]
You must be kidding, as if Russia, China, Cambodia and other non-
capitalist countries don't grow, process and sell tobacco. 

[Krimel]
To the extent that they are, they are participating in a capitalist
enterprise.

[Platt]
Do you blame capitalism for millions of automobile deaths worldwide, too? 

[Krimel]
I don't know. 
Do you? 
If the shoe fits... 
But that is the problem with defining Quality by counting corpses. 
I say, let God sort them out.

[Platt]
What's really disturbing is your making the Holocaust morally equivalent 
to a legal tobacco industry. That's sick.

[Krimel]
You are the one who insists that morality is simply a matter of counting
dead bodies.

I agree completely that it is very sick indeed.