Blind you to the distension
Of avoidable suffering with affluence?
Hard-liner:
No duty is owed
To a higher code
To question poverty’s persistence;
Hence crime is defined
In the public mind
By sanctions, not social systems.
Soft-liner:
Food is destroyed
So that prices are buoyed
While millions are subjected to hunger;
Is the public wrong grosser
By the pusher or doser,
By the cardsharp or insider dealer?
Hard-liner:
The punishment of business
Or political remissness
Is an alternative more rhetoric than practical;
Its consequences ramify
Too unforeseeably to justify
Your reasoning that capitalism's immoral.
Soft-liner:
You look for consequence
To argue the expedience
Of doing right in pounds of self-seeking;