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To: Kaslin

It’s a long read, but worth it!


2 posted on 10/28/2010 7:15:23 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Panzerlied; Kaslin

Yes, it is worth the read. Of course, Haith’s analysis quoted in the middle of the piecce is severely flawed. If “Liberals” really based their morality on “Harm/Care” the fact that leftist ideas inevitably lead to harm would give them pause. And, depending on what one means by “Fairness/Reciprocity”, one can argue that capitalist ideas are based on a notion of reciprocity and fairness, while the leveling impulse, while it embodies a notion of fairness absolutely denies reciprocity in human interaction.

Personally I think leftism is caused by a severe failure to understand economics—if economics were a zero-sum game and static rather than dynamic (the two errors leftists most commonly make) their ideas might arguably have some merit. Either that or, if new research holds up, it’s a result of defective dopamine receptors.


16 posted on 10/28/2010 7:52:39 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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