Money matters

The Advertiser: Fortunes made on bombing:

"'Despite the awful news, there were a considerable amount of people trading and making a lot of money,' said City Index chief executive Clive Cooke. 'We were deluged with buyers, it was absolute mayhem. In this electronic age, instead of being shell-shocked, investors got straight on to their PCs and took the opportunity to make money.'"

I said in my original post about London that ordinary people were being used and really didn't count because profit was more important. This article even says that "Some will find profiteering from horror distasteful." Saying we find it distasteful doesn't make the behaviour of people eager to make money from the destruction and demise of others any more valid. Except in an amoral world where nothing matters.