Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:36:28 GMT, spambait@xxxxxxxxxx (Doug Miller)
wrote:

And why should they do that? What's wrong with ruling themselves to
_their_own_ standards?

Since when have powerful people - nor most people in general, been
satisfied with other people living life their way instead of the way
we know is Right?

and if we had not so desperately tried to hold
on to overseas possessions after WW2.

Or had learned any lessons from a painful and embarrassing experience
attempting to do so in the late 18th century...

Those empires created tremendous amounts of wealth and power for those
who ran them.

The reason we don't have significant slavery in the industrialized
countries today is because we have cheaper and safer ways of creating
wealth/power.
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