Fareast Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 The problem with Richyhello 's idea, is that one could use ' relativism ' to cover up or ' excuse ' a lot of evils. For example, one could say the person in a Nazi concentration camp is really no worse off than a prisoner in a ' soft ' prison. After all, all his peers are suffering the same conditions and he certainly can 't chat to the SS about THEIR life-style ! However the person in a normal prison has visitors and some form of communication with the ' screws ' -----so imagine how deprived he feels ! Ergo----the concentration camp victim is really more content or happy than the normal prisoner. Well.........maybe ! I wouldn 't like to test it out ! It 'works' the other way, too. People in the West with a reasonable amount of money, possessions.....etc...often moan about how poverty-stricken they are [ and how the State ought to bung them some more cash ! ]. What we have to do, is to seriously define what IS a reasonable standard of living in a particular community and if someone IS deprived through no fault of their own [ bad health, for example ], then, the State should take up the slack. It 's not easy to sort out, I know, but, with relativism, there will always be ' poverty ' ----by definition---or, conversely, there will never be anyone really suffering because they 're used to it and the people around them are suffering too-----so, that 's o.k., then ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrod Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 Terrible isn't it, that a hard-working entrepreneur can actually do well in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INTERVIEWER Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 India cannot feed, or clothe, much of its population, this is true. 75% of the population lives BELOW Sub-Saharan poverty levels. But India has the fourth and fifth richest men in the world, Mukesh Ambani and Laxmi Mittal, for citizens. It also has supersonic cruise missiles capable of hitting ground targets, a well funded military (including a next generation fighter project) and a space program that plans to put an astronaut in space by 2015. Earlier this year it spent $11bn on an order for hi-tech AIP submarines, which are capable of launching nuclear weapons. India is a big recipient of international aid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 It reminds me of the old WTC in many ways. After it fell down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Vader Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 If you want to see some sickening inequality, tune in to Channel 4+1 now now and see how Camerons' buddy, who he's enlisted to help him make cuts, Sir Phililp Green, avoids paying taxes. In one swoop alone he paid 1.2 billion to his wife in 'dividends' who enjoys Monaco as a tax haven, which avoided him 285 million in tax payments alone. Fantastic. There's a few of his other buddies on there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hard2miss Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Looks like they both had the same architect though. That tower looks like a pile of shanty houses stacked one atop the other.Ha, I was thinking the same thing, I thought if that thing fell over no one would notice, it would just look like the rest of the shanty towns. What a monstrosity of a building. What ever you say about the man at least he kept the work local, employing a local architect and builders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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