Ideas
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* deaths due to insufficient regulation (guns for example) | * deaths due to insufficient regulation (guns for example) | ||
* deaths due to pollution | * deaths due to pollution | ||
| − | * deaths with distributed responsibility, as in corporations and | + | * deaths with distributed responsibility, as in corporations and racketeering organizations |
I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | ||
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Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | ||
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| + | Alternatively, this could also be considered homicide through toxic freedom. | ||
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| + | Possible name: libricide. | ||
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| + | Or homicide for profit. | ||
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| + | Possible names: prodicide, lucricide. | ||
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| + | Kevin Carson (C4SS) has suggested that I expand the definition of "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide democide]", removing the Rummel limitation to state action. Rummel's original meaning could be changed to communistaricide, since his major purpose was anti-communist propaganda. Or more neutrally, imperiacide or regnacide for government action. | ||
== Civic Fundamentalism == | == Civic Fundamentalism == | ||
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# MYOB, and let others mind theirs. However, do mind public business. | # MYOB, and let others mind theirs. However, do mind public business. | ||
# Government policies should serve the common interest: directly, as insurer of last resort, and where the market fails. (This needs to be cleaned up.) | # Government policies should serve the common interest: directly, as insurer of last resort, and where the market fails. (This needs to be cleaned up.) | ||
| − | # Vote your family's pocketbook: not your politics, not your religion, not the latest propaganda. | + | # Vote your family's pocketbook: not your emotions, not your politics, not your religion, not the latest propaganda. Otherwise you will be manipulated by these. |
| − | # Continue to enlarge civil rights. | + | # Continue to enlarge civil rights and individual freedoms that are valuable. |
| − | # Admit tradeoffs, seek compromise: polarizing issues are created by those who would defraud you. | + | # Admit tradeoffs, seek compromise: polarizing issues are created by those who would manipulate and defraud you. |
| − | # Honor your government and those who serve in it; yea even unto the taxman. | + | # Honor your government and those who serve in it; yea even unto the taxman. Judge your government when it deserves it. |
# Respect information and science, shun poseurs. | # Respect information and science, shun poseurs. | ||
# Workers and families should be served before corporations or the wealthy. | # Workers and families should be served before corporations or the wealthy. | ||
