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ORIGINAL: Owner59

I can`t say these things are done purposely to hurt people.But I can give a good argument that hurting people is NOT the first concern of most corporations.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

That`s one way to put it.

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When the price of energy shot up a few years back,it essentially put millions of people living on the margins of starvation and hunger right into full on hunger.

Most people make less than a buck a day and in most places,most of that dollar went to buy rice or beans.As the price of production doubled(from higher fuel prices),the cost of the bare minimum of food to live on became out of reach.It wasn`t a choice between steak or hotdogs.It was do with less,period.There were food riots b/c of the price of food going up.

There`s no doubt that those who own the gold make the rules.The decisions made effect everyone`s economic systems,some for good,other`s,not so good.For folks in the 3rd world already on the edge,it doesn`t take much to put them over the edge.

I can`t say these things are done purposely to hurt people.But I can give a good argument that hurting people is NOT the first concern of most corporations.

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ORIGINAL: DaddysInkedSlut

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

I can`t say these things are done purposely to hurt people.But I can give a good argument that hurting people is NOT the first concern of most corporations.

Isn't there a legal term for when someone's actions cause someone great bodily harm or death?

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


So you agree that environmental extremists such as Barack Obama shutting down oil, coal, and natural gas exploration and recovery is tantamount to murder too, then.

Right?

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

That`s one way to put it.

addded:

When the price of energy shot up a few years back,it essentially put millions of people living on the margins of starvation and hunger right into full on hunger.

Most people make less than a buck a day and in most places,most of that dollar went to buy rice or beans.As the price of production doubled(from higher fuel prices),the cost of the bare minimum of food to live on became out of reach.It wasn`t a choice between steak or hotdogs.It was do with less,period.There were food riots b/c of the price of food going up.

There`s no doubt that those who own the gold make the rules.The decisions made effect everyone`s economic systems,some for good,other`s,not so good.For folks in the 3rd world already on the edge,it doesn`t take much to put them over the edge.

I can`t say these things are done purposely to hurt people.But I can give a good argument that hurting people is NOT the first concern of most corporations.

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

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ORIGINAL: DaddysInkedSlut

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

I can`t say these things are done purposely to hurt people.But I can give a good argument that hurting people is NOT the first concern of most corporations.

Isn't there a legal term for when someone's actions cause someone great bodily harm or death?

You'd have a hard time I expect, trying to establish that GS et al owe a duty of care to the poor of the world, even if you could by some miracle establish that their suffering was not too remote for the causation principle.

This comes down to governments regulating this sort of activity and facing down the charge of overstepping the mark, getting too big, restricting free trade, "socialism" and other such nonsense.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


So you agree that environmental extremists such as Barack Obama shutting down oil, coal, and natural gas exploration and recovery is tantamount to murder too, then.

Right?

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

That`s one way to put it.

addded:

When the price of energy shot up a few years back,it essentially put millions of people living on the margins of starvation and hunger right into full on hunger.

Most people make less than a buck a day and in most places,most of that dollar went to buy rice or beans.As the price of production doubled(from higher fuel prices),the cost of the bare minimum of food to live on became out of reach.It wasn`t a choice between steak or hotdogs.It was do with less,period.There were food riots b/c of the price of food going up.

There`s no doubt that those who own the gold make the rules.The decisions made effect everyone`s economic systems,some for good,other`s,not so good.For folks in the 3rd world already on the edge,it doesn`t take much to put them over the edge.

I can`t say these things are done purposely to hurt people.But I can give a good argument that hurting people is NOT the first concern of most corporations.