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I.G. Farben
Linked above are two sources. One is a current affair (Blackwater) and the other is history. My suggestion to anyone, anywhere, is to read, at least, the first one. I will quote from the second one:
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“The construction of I.G. Auschwitz has assured I.G. a unique place in business history. By adopting the theory and practice of Nazi morality, it was able to depart from the conventional economics of slavery in which slaves are traditionally treated as capital equipment to be maintained and serviced for optimum use and depreciated over a normal life span. Instead, I.G. reduced slave labor to a consumable raw material, a human ore from which the mineral of life was systematically extracted. When no usable energy remained, the living dross was shipped to the gassing chambers and cremation furnaces of the extermination center at Birkenau, where the S.S. recycled it into the German war economy – gold teeth for the Reichsbank, hair for mattresses, and fat for soap. Even the moans of the doomed became a work incentive, exhorting the remaining inmates to greater effort.”
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The business of exploiting the market included business people specialized at certain tasks. The description above is an economical one. The morality of it is also told by the writer in the same book:
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“Conditions were such that sickness was a pervasive fact of life among the inhabitants of Monowitz. The hospital wards built by I.G. were so inadequate that even the S.S. suggested additional wards be built. I.G. refused because of the cost.”
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For those of you who can read without having to insert lies and fanciful fabrications in between each letter, each word, and each sentence, so as to turn, twist, and spin any form of communication into something entirely different than what was intended by the writer, for those honest types, I ask for a peer review of my take on this Blackwater situation.
I’ve prefaced my perspective on this Blackwater situation during the process of making this thread more than a three word question attached to a web link.
Someone (?) already ‘helped’ the process along and I am grateful for that much, although my replies may appear to be somewhat less than gratuitous.
A few more comments may lead well into the next post I write where I finally offer my take on the three word question (Free Market Competition?) linked to the News article on Blackwater. My comments concern the history of specialization in the trade of violence and deception.
When we grew up (by we I mean the society of individuals who conducted themselves according to an ideology whereby violence and deception were out-side the customary code of conduct or, in other words, violence and lies were abhorred and discredited as being wrong, bad, and quite evil because violence and deception were, and is, destructive to the innocent), so, when we grew up a movie about James Bond toured the theaters around the world. In that movie the main character was awarded a ‘license to kill’, what was unsaid but certainly recognizable concerned the ‘license to lie’.
Once a human being is faced with a situation whereby death at the hands of another human being is imminent and practically unavoidable there is bound to be a lifting of normal moral considerations. It may be less destructive to deceive an attacker or victim than it is to cause physical injury.
This may be a very foreign viewpoint that may appear to be coming from and going off into fantasy and irrelevance. If this viewpoint does appear to be extremely odd, if so, please consider where I’ve come from and I have offered that detail earlier. I come from a society whereby the common law or mutually agreed upon moral appreciation abhorred lies. Our Free Market Competition, from where I came from, and to where I go, is free of lies. We do not embrace lies as a means to an end. If that is foreign to you, it stands to reason that this viewpoint is meaningless. Why are you reading? You can make up your own perspective as you see fit? All you need to do is speak; perhaps you have no use in hearing.
The license to lie and kill was awarded to James Bond and ‘no one does it better’ or so we were told. I appreciated the movie and the sentiment. You may not. If my version of Free Market Competition (where lies and violence are abhorred as a means of gaining at the expense of competitors) is threatened by someone who has been awarded a license to lie and kill (and someone who is the best at it) my life will end.
How many in your group like life? In my group it is unanimous; we like life. When Dooms Day is knocking on our door we are faced with a choice to die while maintaining our hatred of lies and violence or we can choose to embrace lies and/or violence as a means to an end – in the case of being faced with Dooms Day the end desired (inspiring the use of lies and violence) is an end to the threat that brings Dooms Day to the door.
It is a tough job, but someone has to do it. Why not hire the people who like to lie and harm people if the idea is to lie and harm people?