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Is it ethical to import a large percentage of something - anything -
needed to keep a country's economy and way of life going? Particularly
when such importation requires dealing with, and empowering, people
whose values are very different from your own?


My state grows no oranges, and must import them from Florida, home of the
hanging chad and other values not compatible with "Minnesota nice". Is it
ethical to drink orange juice in Minnesota?

Or maybe ethics hasn't a damned thing to do with it. I like citrus products,
and I'll buy from whoever sells them at a price I'm willing to pay. Meanwhile
we grow some damned good corn, wheat, and soybeans here on the prairie. We'll
be happy to sell it to whoever meets the going price, regardless if their
"values are very different" from ours.

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de Hans, K0HB