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Old 10-31-2007, 01:45 PM
Phil153 Phil153 is offline
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Default Re: What moral attitude should we take toward Globalism?

I disagree with your basic premise that poor or middle class Americans are worse off in the short run. I think it's a given that trade has given us many cheap products and fueled growth and stability. That said, in the long run I think it's terrible for the economy to outsource advanced technologies to cheap countries. The innovation created by keeping things like robotics, and car manufacturing in local hands, drives economies, and creates local intellectual capital and progress that has benefits in many unrelated areas.

I'm also greatly against doing trade with countries that aren't advanced, responsible democracies, which excludes everywhere except Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada, the UK and Western European countries (I may have missed a couple).

The world is truly a cesspool of worthless humans, who breed too much, care little for civilization, for human rights, for higher ideals, or the long term future. Giving these people the fruits of the most advanced civilizations on Earth is retarded. For one, it greatly increases overpopulation. The green revolution in Asia is a perfect example of this. For two, it harms their local environments significantly. For three, it gives power to civilizations that have never gone through a Western style Enlightenment, and indeed may not be capable of it. And finally, a resource war is coming that will be both serious and prolonged. The more technological advantage we have, and less industrial development the rest of the world has, the better.

I realize you asked a question about the morality of it, but I think in this case the morality is best determined by likely consequences.
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