You had me at "People are too dumb . . ." -----Original Message----- From: frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:30:07 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: What becomes of the broken-hearted?
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yep. It's been a quite 4-5 years for McDonald's, but the looneys are > starting to crawl back out of the woodwork. > 'Ooouh, that food is bad for you.' It is, actually. > 'Ooouh, that food will kill you.' Eventually it will. > 'Ooouh, your kids like it and it's bad for them.' Well, they do, and it is. > 'Ooouh, we're killing poor defenseless animals just to eat them.' Aren't we? After all, that's a pretty clear statement of fact. Whether one finds eating meat ethical or not, we ~are~ killing animals and they ~are~ defenseless and we ~do~ kill them to eat them! > 'Quick, our government needs to save us from these excesses!' Nah, I like the concept of Darwinism in action. > 'People are too dumb to make their own choices.' What's your point? > 'We should only sell them what they should have, not what they want.' We live in a capitalist system. The market drives the economy. If a company can make more money selling processed murdered animal by-product than by selling broccoli and dandelion leaves, then they have to sell the former, don't they? > 'From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.' Pinko! > 'And we'll tell you exactly what your needs are...' I'm not sure who "we" is. > Regards, Bob S. > > PS. I know of no successful enterprise which doesn't cater to what > the customer WANTS! PS. I guess that says a lot about why the free ~enterprise~ system works so well when it comes to matters of nutrition and health, eh? ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
