There is a refusal to recognize our multifold dependencies. There is an urgent need to dominate others. To illustrate one's false need for domination, Elshtain recalled the example of Robert Oppenheimer and his thoughts on the Bhaghavad Gita just after he successfully tested the atomic bomb. There is a limit to acts of freedom. Elshtain said she believes that people should question their own economic practices.
Money can go around the world in milliseconds.
Marx said you could buy first-class on the Titanic. That story did not turn out too well. We are doomed like the voyage of that great ship. In this life, nothing is holy or sacred anymore. Furthermore, she said economists have tried to put a monetary value on human life in the past, one example being slavery.