Reply #22: Just going by your standard of "causes more bad than good." [View All]

[jpgray]

There's a great book out there all about the horrors of materialism, greed and large-scale violence that are derived directly from organized agriculture--the title slips my mind at the moment.

Most forward thinkers wouldn't wear slave-labor t-shirts, make gluttonous use of impoverished nations' resources, or indeed be typing windily about this very topic.

:dunce:

If you carry the big picture view far enough, unraveling injustice from injustice back to a common source, we may as well just all starve ourselves. Because we're it. Rather than kvetch about the utter failure of almost all human institutions, damning all with a broad brush's sweeping strokes, I'd rather point out the few truly vicious bastards that are doing the most harm. The moneymen and church leaders who funded the signature drive for prop 8 would be a nice start.

:D