A most interesting quote...

[NYcarbineer]

Galbraith is absolutely right. People want excuses to be selfish without feeling guilty about it.
Conservatism is designed to provide those excuses.

That is a nice judgment but since me and you were born equal you really have no right to interfere with my behavior even when it is selfish.

Sorry dude.

Might makes right. Try stealing something out of selfish motivation and see if asserting your 'right' to behave selfishly, and not have it interfered with, works with the judge.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Galbraith is absolutely right. People want excuses to be selfish without feeling guilty about it.
Conservatism is designed to provide those excuses.

In what ways are conservatives selfish?

We want to be the one's who decide what we do with our money. Selfish, selfish, selfish.

Good. You can pay for my share of the Iraq war, that I opposed, as well the percentage of the rest of military spending I don't agree with.

I'll pay for your share of public television funding lol.

 

[Oddball]

Galbraith is absolutely right. People want excuses to be selfish without feeling guilty about it.
Conservatism is designed to provide those excuses.

That is a nice judgment but since me and you were born equal you really have no right to interfere with my behavior even when it is selfish.

Sorry dude.

Might makes right. Try stealing something out of selfish motivation and see if asserting your 'right' to behave selfishly, and not have it interfered with, works with the judge.

Oh, the irony!

Try the collectivized progressive/socialist theft, perpetrated under the guise of "helping" the pooooooor or the chiiilllldrrreeennn, as an individual and see if your rationale flies with the judge, Buckwheat.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Funny, last I checked, the wealthiest people in this nation are, um, LIBERALS/PROGRESSIVES.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I'll pay for your share of public television funding lol

What a douche... who the **** watches PBS?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

That is a nice judgment but since me and you were born equal you really have no right to interfere with my behavior even when it is selfish.

Sorry dude.

Might makes right. Try stealing something out of selfish motivation and see if asserting your 'right' to behave selfishly, and not have it interfered with, works with the judge.

Oh, the irony!

Try the collectivized progressive/socialist theft, perpetrated under the guise of "helping" the pooooooor or the chiiilllldrrreeennn, as an individual and see if your rationale flies with the judge, Buckwheat.

Oddly enough, everytime these nitwits set about "helping" people, they always end up worse off.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

The attempt to help an unemployed man and he ends up unemployed for life.

YAY!!!!!!!!!

 

[Oddball]

Might makes right. Try stealing something out of selfish motivation and see if asserting your 'right' to behave selfishly, and not have it interfered with, works with the judge.

Oh, the irony!

Try the collectivized progressive/socialist theft, perpetrated under the guise of "helping" the pooooooor or the chiiilllldrrreeennn, as an individual and see if your rationale flies with the judge, Buckwheat.

Oddly enough, everytime these nitwits set about "helping" people, they always end up worse off.

Why do you hate the pooooooor and the chiiilllldrrreeennn?

 

[syrenn]

This is a most interesting quote and I can say their is no moral excuse for selfiishness but the question we should ask ourselves do other people have a right to block our 'selfishness'? I believe that all men (women included) were created equal and because of this no one has any rights over other people. This sets us free because it establishes that no one person has any right to control another person because everyone is equal in authority with respect to one another and if this is true then how does anyone have the right to deny someone's activity because they think it is immoral?

Why would I need "moral justification" to work hard and enjoy the fruits of my labor. Why do I need "moral justification" to keep what I have earned and not share it with anyone else? How does that make a person "selfish"? I agree with you that everyone is equal to work hard and enjoy what they earn without having to feel guilt in not giving it to others.

You only need that for your own conscience but I'm not here to throw a guilt trip on you. I'm saying that even selfishness can't be stopped by another person because of our born equality with one another. No person is above another and has no rights over them. This in itself sets us free of the control of others so you have the right to be selfish and judge for yourself what that is and be ok with it with your own conscience.

I have no guilt. However that does not stop the "have not's" from trying to project guilt on anyone who has something they want.

I don't have a choice in giving, it is taken away from me in the forms of taxes. So as it stands now the very wealthy "give" some, the middle class "give" more and the poor "give" nothing. Now we all know that even for the poor there is someone who is worse off and poorer then themselves, do they give up portions of what have philanthropically?

So I am on the giving end of life, not on the receiving end with my eyes on what everyone else has and my hand out looking for more.

 

[ihopehefails]

Galbraith is absolutely right. People want excuses to be selfish without feeling guilty about it.
Conservatism is designed to provide those excuses.

That is a nice judgment but since me and you were born equal you really have no right to interfere with my behavior even when it is selfish.

Sorry dude.

Might makes right. Try stealing something out of selfish motivation and see if asserting your 'right' to behave selfishly, and not have it interfered with, works with the judge.

I said people have a right to behave as they want that are free from the control of others by default. Whoever has something stolen has the right to defend their property since no one can tell that person what to do. No one has any right to restrain them from defending what is theirs.

 

[ihopehefails]

Why would I need "moral justification" to work hard and enjoy the fruits of my labor. Why do I need "moral justification" to keep what I have earned and not share it with anyone else? How does that make a person "selfish"? I agree with you that everyone is equal to work hard and enjoy what they earn without having to feel guilt in not giving it to others.

You only need that for your own conscience but I'm not here to throw a guilt trip on you. I'm saying that even selfishness can't be stopped by another person because of our born equality with one another. No person is above another and has no rights over them. This in itself sets us free of the control of others so you have the right to be selfish and judge for yourself what that is and be ok with it with your own conscience.

I have no guilt. However that does not stop the "have not's" from trying to project guilt on anyone who has something they want.

I don't have a choice in giving, it is taken away from me in the forms of taxes. So as it stands now the very wealthy "give" some, the middle class "give" more and the poor "give" nothing. Now we all know that even for the poor there is someone who is worse off and poorer then themselves, do they give up portions of what have philanthropically?

So I am on the giving end of life, not on the receiving end with my eyes on what everyone else has and my hand out looking for more.

I wasn't trying to make this a question of right versus wrong but about the idea that all people are equal as in the same rank to each other and because of that no one person has the right to tell the other what to do or how they should live their lives. Their is no birth order that declares one person above another in authority because 'all men are created equal...'. This is what actually sets us free.