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Originally Posted by bhamlaxy
So the only value you place on individuals is the extent to which they can aid you in capitalistic transactions? This is what the commodification of individuals is all about. Unless they can help you achieve profit, you don't give a rats ass about them. Why help poor people when they can't pay for it? This is what directs everything our government does. We invade Kuwait in order to protect oil, but we don't stop multiple genocides, which would take a FRACTION of the force used in Kuwait. Literally a plane or two of troops could stop the killing of millions of innocent people, but because they can't make us money, we don't give a shit. Oil companies go tear the living shit out of the lands of indigenous people all over the world, because they have no money, therefore are of no value to us. Capitalism puts a price tag on every life, and if it's not high enough, you are deemed worthless and disposable.
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Things aren't that simple though. It's easy to justify stepping in when you have country A invading country B. When you have a country oppressing their own people, or a civil war, it's harder to justify intervention. Condemning the actions and cutting off relations are just about all you can do. Countries do have a right to govern their own affairs after all.
Besides, you didn't see the soviet union sending troops to stop this sort of thing when they were around. If a capitalist country doesn't take action it's cause capitalism is bad and doesn't care about people who can't make them money? So what's the reason a communist country does nothing then?