Comments on Carabiner: Greed

The WarOnGreed.org website doesn't appear to be a ...

2008-01-14T14:25:00.000-06:00

The WarOnGreed.org website doesn't appear to be a hate site. I thought it was a clever and humorous way to draw attention to the issue of greed. Suggesting in a thoughtful way that someone is wrong is not hatred. Disagreement is not hatred.

Unless someone has shot Mr. Kravis to combat the "...

2008-01-14T13:28:00.000-06:00

Unless someone has shot Mr. Kravis to combat the "War on Greed," I do not see the point of muddying the waters with a reference to the war on terror.

No one is arguing the need to combat greed in this world - the way that we go about it is what is truely up for debate.

How dare anyone fight greed with hate! God desires for us to be in relationship with God and one another. Creating a bully movement to force people to accept your values does nothing to promote relationship - much less inspire generosity in one another.

I think there was a lot of good and thoughtful inf...

2007-12-29T14:22:00.000-06:00

I think there was a lot of good and thoughtful information on the WarOnGreed.org website. And contrasting Kravis' wealth with the well-being of nurses and teachers seems like a perfectly reasonable and rational way to call into question the issues of disparity in the livelihoods of various occupational choices.

There have been good, righteous wars fought in the past -- the war on poverty, the war on illiteracy. The war on greed seems like a just and right endeavor.

I'd be interested, though in pursuing your suggestion further with regard to our other, less distinct, and somewhat misguided "war on terror." We have used a conceptual construct -- the idea of a war waged against an idea (poverty, illiteracy, greed) to justify an actual shooting war on a group of people who we identify as terrorists.

I happen to think that your suggestion for reaching out to Kravis in love a beautiful way to approach individuals. Could we have done the same thing with Saddam Hussein?