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> The people in the outgroup are people, individuals each with their own beliefs, preferences, tastes, values, experiences, relationships, etc. Um, duh? It's

> The people in the outgroup are people, individuals each with their own beliefs, preferences, tastes, values, experiences, relationships, etc. Um, duh? It's just ironic considering the Republican hysteria about Obama's "death panels", rationally known as end-of-life planning. I guess in/out-group demonization isn't an issue as when Democrats were the out-group? Now the Republicans are proposing changes that will lead to higher mortality rates (read the CBO report), and suddenly death isn't an issue. I do understand the fiscal conservatives argument for these changes, the price of human life versus death... that does little to dull the irony, and nothing to gain my support.

drdeca 9y ago
Its possible that there's some bias in what things I would respond to in that sort of way, but if people here were saying that democrats were trying to kill people-in-general, and it wasn't already greyed out from downvotes, I would hope that I would respond in generally the same way that I did here? I don't know if I really would fulfill the expectations I have for myself in such a situation, but I hope that I would. I am not saying that the proposed policies aren't bad, or even that they aren't evil (not saying it is either. I would need to do a lot more reading to know), just that the goal isn't killing people, and to believe that the goal is killing people, (not just an expected outcome of a decision made for other reasons) is rather absurd. No major USA political party has as general goal "kill the women, children, and elderly people". This should be obvious.