Comments on: Egg : Chicken :: Apathy : State http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/16/egg-chicken-apathy-state/ Sliding down the banisters of the ivory tower. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:23:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Nicola Karras http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/16/egg-chicken-apathy-state/#comment-628 Nicola Karras Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:17:16 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=111#comment-628 No, I'm arguing that if you assume that people feel duty towards one another, you think private charity will work; if you don't, you don't. This doesn't necessarily line up with what YOU feel, though. No, I’m arguing that if you assume that people feel duty towards one another, you think private charity will work; if you don’t, you don’t. This doesn’t necessarily line up with what YOU feel, though.

]]> By: Noah http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/16/egg-chicken-apathy-state/#comment-627 Noah Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:22:53 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=111#comment-627 Did you really just argue that liberals are cold, unfeeling selfish people? I think so... But I think that the problem here is that it's survey data. Conservatives and liberals have different opinions things. A shocker. A level deeper, conservatives and liberals have different ways they want to see themselves, and that comes out too. The real data you need is at different income levels, do conservatives and liberals actually take care of their parents at different rates, or do community service at different rates, or whatever. Because the way I see it isn't that I know I won't take care of my family so I'd better make sure the state does, but that I see other people not doing so. The elderly had the highest poverty rate in America of any group but blacks by a long-shot before Social Security; now they are well-off. Results! Did you really just argue that liberals are cold, unfeeling selfish people? I think so…

But I think that the problem here is that it’s survey data. Conservatives and liberals have different opinions things. A shocker. A level deeper, conservatives and liberals have different ways they want to see themselves, and that comes out too.

The real data you need is at different income levels, do conservatives and liberals actually take care of their parents at different rates, or do community service at different rates, or whatever. Because the way I see it isn’t that I know I won’t take care of my family so I’d better make sure the state does, but that I see other people not doing so. The elderly had the highest poverty rate in America of any group but blacks by a long-shot before Social Security; now they are well-off. Results!

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