On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "So a list of failed democracies would prove that democracy is a failed > ideology?" > > It would be an interesting list. Throw in Republics too.
The point being, communism doesn't kill people... people kill people. And mosquitoes. Er. Infectious diseases? =) > > "Sure. And malaria kills X amount of kids every minute." > > Yes, and malaria is an act of nature. > > I believe the reference was to more intentional acts of killing. > > You know like: > > > National Socialist Hitler's genocide of 6 million Jews, > Stalin's forced starvation of 6 to 7 million Ukrainians. > Stalin's great purge of the communist party which killed between 700k and > 1.5 million. > Che's hand in killing over 10,000 dissidents in Cuba in the 1960's. > Mao's Great Leap forward which killed 20 million people > Khmer Rouge killing 2 million in 4 years. > > While anyone dieing of malaria is a shame, it isn't in the same league. You mean numerically? I'm pretty sure that malaria has been a problem for a while now. I'd bet the total number of deaths from malaria dwarfs your whole list, combined. Even if we limit the malaria time frame to the last 10 years. Hrm... intention. Morality is an interesting deal. If you see someone dieing in the street, and you do nothing to help them, when you could have... is that Bad? Eh. Communism as a death carrier though? Not buying it. It has no monopoly on death. Utopia is hard to pull off, I'll give you that. :Den -- I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. Michel de Montaig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325793 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
