> Also, every time humans try to "share and share alike" like this -- socialism, communism, etc -- it winds up going bad places. How do you reconcile that with

> Also, every time humans try to "share and share alike" like this -- socialism, communism, etc -- it winds up going bad places. How do you reconcile that with the quite successful Scandinavian (and to a lesser extent Canadian and other) examples of quite left/socialist leaning societies? I hear this argument ("It just doesn't work!") quite often but it sounds to me to be just parroting far-right propaganda, and selectively looking at evidence that supports that line of thinking (eg russia/china which have a lot of issues that aren't really tied to the left/right spectrum). [edit] I actually like the reasonable approach you're taking in the rest of your comment :) I'm just picking at that one statement as I see it fairly often and really have a hard time understanding it.