Is it ethical to produce arms for sale? World over all the low intensity wars, militancies are supplied with arms by those who have financial abilty to provide them. They do this based on political and economic speculation. The result is that wars continue....
1) To provide market for weapons that are produced.
2) Are based on calculated economic and political speculation of large corporate and national interests.
In Kashmir a decade and a half before the most commonly known small arm was a kitchen knife and violence was virtually unknown. Out of the blue, huge consignments of sophesticated arms that local people just cannot afford became easily available and fascinated the young. This resulted in large scale devastation with 80,000 dead and roughly 10,000 missing.
Why do we allow commerical arms manufacture and sale?
Is it ethical to have such an industry. If war is legitimate only on the premise that it is to bring about peace, then how ethical is all this?
2006-07-29
17:00:22
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boogie man
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