1. I've been nursing a grudge against this Adam Gopnik New Yorker essay on John Stuart Mill for about 8 years: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/06/right-again …
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9. Mill understood famine was systematic failure not caused by Irish peasants but still wanted them to suffer (for the greater good)
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@HeerJeet (1) Hold it: standard British line: “The Irish are losers and should die”. Million line: “The Irish R trapped in a dysfunctional -
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@HeerJeet (2) neofeudal system and efforts to relieve the famine have massive unfortunate blowback in perpetuating bad system. We need to - Show replies
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@CubeCamus No: Mill had the analytical tools to see problem with not feeding starving, in way Victorian moralists didn't.
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