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[–]Otacon 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'd be curious to see the body count of other, more widely implemented economic systems, and then see how people respond to the whole dataset.

[–]Many_Coconut[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Define what you mean by "kill". Communism literally took guns and shot at people en mass, exterminating entire family names. There were big pictures of Stalin and Mao and Lenin etc. hanging around, and if someone did not show proper respect for them, their entire family would have often been whipped out.

That is a different level of evil. Communism has NOTHING to do with economy. That is only a vector of attack, a justification to convince the masses, or rather, for the masses to lie to themselves.

Communism is one further step towards strengthening the evil of this world. Towards "reeducating" people to be indifferent towards right and wrong. The relativism of good and evil.

It is about destroying the society to mold it according to a hideous shape. It is about creating a system of unending evil.

For all the ill of capitalism, it does not say to kill everyone who is not a capitalist. All the dumb young communists in the west should be a proof of that. Communism however...

[–]Otacon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Define what you mean by kill

I never said the word "kill", I said "body count". As in the number of people directly killed (things such as wars, govt assassinations, workers being killed by unsafe conditions) and indirectly killed (things such as oil pipelines breaking and destroying ecosystems that then ruin the livelihood of people, people who can't afford food and then die, people who can't afford medical care and die due to lack of treatment or an undetected illness, people who die in ghettos, etc etc).

It's quite rude and dishonest of you to rephrase my posts with words I didn't use.

Communism literally took guns and shot at people en mass, exterminating entire family names.

And capitalism hasn't gone and wiped people off the map? I'm quite sure the numerous U.S interventions have resulted in a hefty number of deaths, as well as things like the British Opium Wars being direct instances of capitalism (that is, if we count the British empire as having been somewhat capitalist during that time) causing death and destruction. Last second edit: You could also count the deaths caused by every notable cartel and drug empire as being part of the capitalist body count, seeing as how a hierarchical orginization who's sole goal is the attainment of wealth is basically just a corporation. Only difference between cartels and corporations is that one operates outside the law. But U.S law is not inherent to capitalism

Also the OP pic mentions "socialism", not communism. If your OP was intended to dunk on communism then I'd appreciate if you could clarify that

Communism has NOTHING to do with economy.

An economic system has nothing to do with economy? I'd like you to explain that a bit more if possible, because I genuinely can't follow your reasoning.

The relativism of good and evil.

"Good" and "evil" aren't really words with clear cut definitions. If you wanna talk about an ideology eroding the line between "good" and "evil" you'd have to start with an extremely thorough definition of those words, because otherwise there'd be no way to point out and measure change in public perception of "good" and "evil".