Re: Infrastructure
Reply #147 –
"Lafayette" Johnson, who might or might not have been there, might disagree… But what does central African atrocity at the hands of Europeans in the late 1800s have to do with the Wiki sentence you'd like to quote, other than to fuel anti-American sentiment?
In this letter, he [GWW] condemned the brutal and inhuman treatment the Congolese were suffering at the hands of Europeans and Africans supervising them for the Congo Free State. He mentioned the role played by Henry M. Stanley, sent to the Congo by the King, in deceiving and mistreating local Congolese. Williams reminded the King that the crimes committed were all committed in his name, making him as guilty as the perpetrators. He appealed to the international community of the day to "call and create an International Commission to investigate the charges herein preferred in the name of Humanity ...".
Good rhetoric! Very good! Silly and pompous and ineffectual; but good!
Think about the things that have been done, in the name of Humanity! Surely you'll relent… Your position is untenable.
Each crime is cognizant; else there are no humans. Where such crimes are both numerous and condoned by governments, then war is the likely result —if there are any moral regimes— and we all (don't we?) hope for better arrangements?