Posted on 04/07/2015 6:19:47 AM PDT by MayorKoch
It is difficult to define a whole school of political ideology precisely, but one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others. In the modern political and economic context, this willingness usually translates into paying higher proportions of individual incomes in taxes toward the government and its social welfare programs. Liberals usually support such social welfare programs and higher taxes to finance them, and conservatives usually oppose them.
Defined as such, liberalism is evolutionarily novel. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be altruistic toward their genetic kin, their friends and allies, and members of their deme (a group of intermarrying individuals) or ethnic group. They are not designed to be altruistic toward an indefinite number of complete strangers whom they are not likely ever to meet or interact with. This is largely because our ancestors lived in a small band of 50-150 genetically related individuals, and large cities and nations with thousands and millions of people are themselves evolutionarily novel...
Incidentally, this finding substantiates one of the persistent complaints among conservatives. Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions. The Hypothesis explains why conservatives are correct in their complaints. Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions. They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.
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Yah, that's why liberals support abortion and death panels- all their "concern" for others.
2.Hugh and Series
3.Stuned
Did I win?
Membership in the Cheese of the Month club for my sister?
A brand new 2015 Beeber
All expenses paid trip to Thailand?
Lulz no, Ed.
Oh man... the fat guy bump-firing a Glock with the cushion of his fat belly. That is one of my favorite videos.
He reminds me of a certain multiretread who had a habit of claiming to like a lot of things.
He was also known as the Doku Pest.
One reason conservatives are more intelligent than liberals is that they have, at least, a rudimentary bull leavings detector.
Thus, they don’t swallow the stuff, and they don’t spew it upon others.
At this point, he’s put me to sleep ... wake me up if the thread gets interesting again.
The fact that conservatives have been shown to give more money to charities than liberals is not inconsistent with the prediction from the Hypothesis; in fact, it supports the prediction. Individuals can normally choose and select the beneficiaries of their charity donations. For example, they can choose to give money to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, because they want to help them, but not to give money to the victims of the earthquake in Chile, because they don’t want to help them. In contrast, citizens do not have any control over whom the money they pay in taxes benefit. They cannot individually choose to pay taxes to fund Medicare, because they want to help elderly white people, but not AFDC, because they don’t want to help poor black single mothers. This may precisely be why conservatives choose to give more money to individual charities of their choice while opposing higher taxes.
It still doesn't really address the issue of why conservatives give more. Liberals could give to a private agency that would guarantee to give it to whoever on a random basis, or was most likely to be offensive to the provider, or whatever.
The point is, though, that would be their money, and where's the fun in that?
Are we too late for this one, Darksheare?
Not too late, it still lives.
If there is movement in the observation area we have to nudge Servant of the Cross awake.
(They’re over in that corner there, feet propped up and hat down.)
We’re creeping up on 4,000 posts on the current thread, so maybe we can find new digs...
Ya think?
There goes my subscription to Psychology Today! LOL!
I had a charter subscription to it, back in the day, but when my kids left home, I didn’t need the “advice.”
Yes, we need a new home.
This one is kind of lame.
I might have to “Self Post the UT” again.
I doan wanna.
Of course, Post #162 could be a winner!
Yes, and we have RedMDer to thank for Post #162.
Thank you, Red!
Bmup!
Er..Bump!
Thanks, ResMDer! Pretty pithy!
Pretty wordy. LOL!
Thank you!
:)
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