Re:Moving production to Asia? (Score 0)

Are you asserting that our greed is due to our economic choice? I would think that the reverse is true. You can't just snap your fingers and choose a utopian society. The trick is taking basic human motivations such as greed and trying to channel them in a less destructive manner. Destroying the basic motivations is a much more difficult matter, and may not be a good idea anyway. Take communism, for example. Too utopian to be presently workable, and leaves the door wide open for inevitable corruption. Greed finds all sorts of cracks to slip through. Drive is beneficial to society, just not when it's taken to an extreme.

In the case of child labor, kids dying in coal mines today in the U.S. would totally destroy the PR image of the company responsible. Therefore such a business decision does not benefit said company, and greed mandates another tactic.

The counterbalance to overwhelming greed, or for that matter anything else of that nature, is public awareness. I'd say indifference is the biggest threat to an overall good society. It's very hard to get people to consistently give a shit about something. Of course, this assumes that people are fundamentally good, but I believe that a sense of ethics is motivated fundamentally by self-interest, so I'm covered with that assumption. :P I'm not saying that people consciously choose to be good out of self-interest, rather that humans are predominantly wired that way as an evolutionary 'decision'. That includes the evolution of ideas, cultures, systems of belief, worldviews, etc. You can treat those as co-entities which have a symbiotic relationship with their human hosts, if you like.

Whoa, that got a little long-winded. Probably no one will read this, anyway. Damn my 0 karma from a handful of offtopic (they were?) posts. heh.

- Ithil