okay i take back my thing about all americans being greedy and selfish and being totally cool with watching people die for money. some americans are like that. and far more than they should be. sorry and i hope my apology is accepted.

what you earn is not your life. you are not the car you drive, you are not the pool in your back garden, you are not your bank account, you are not your new armani jacket, you are not your italian leather shoes, you are not your 50' plasma tv. your life is what you acheive. and what you acheive is not the money you make. but the difference you make.

"did we really win that war?
Yeah, and the USSR existed for eighty years. That didn't make it right. Pragmatism (the idea that whatever works is good) is really a simple (and incorrect) viewpoint on life."

so what wasn't right? winning the war? or changing our systems to their most effecient forms so that we could win the war? either way it's pretty shocking that you would consider either an evil.

the right to life is above that of property. you can have less property and live happily. you cannot have less life.