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In reply to the discussion: There is no way to reconcile the TPP with helping working Americans [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)A multinational deal that will elevate corporations above free states, with language specifically designed to override safety, labor and environmental laws via the threat of law suits to recover "imagined" profits that might have been gained were such laws not in place would react with defensive redirection, obfuscation and advised complacency rather than concern or outrage.
I suppose I simply do not understand individuals that place the profits (not even their own, but the profits of billionaires) so far above the needs and well being of the human population that they would act so contrary to what I once thought was a biological imperative to seek shelter, warmth and survival for not only oneself, but each other (as we are a social species that has learned to adapt to survive via communal reactions and self protections).
I understand sociopathy, and realize sociopaths lack the ability to care for or about others, but this goes far beyond that, it is some form of group sociopathy wherein a group rather than an individual lacks the ability to care regarding the fate of others. It is very disturbing to me, it's as if we share this globe with another completely different intelligent hominid species, a predatory and ruthless species that would care not at all if multiple villages of other human like entities died of starvation so that a very small number of their tribe were to have an extra unneeded handful of berries or nuts do consume as a snack after having already procured a dinner so lavish that the added berries may cause them to vomit.
What is even harder to understand is that many among this species appear completely oblivious to the obvious fact that their chieftains have placed them on the menu as well, perhaps they do realize and for some insane reason feel it is a honor to be consumed by the very chieftains they work so hard to enable regarding the destruction of others.,
Sorry for my trademark run on sentences and meandering thoughts, yours is a good OP and I hope I have not distracted from it.