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That is how I see it. I often drift into hypocrisy: I am 100% anti-war except if my country was directly attacked, but in the financial interests of me and my f
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
That is how I see it. I often drift into hypocrisy: I am 100% anti-war except if my country was directly attacked, but in the financial interests of me and my family, I do own “defense” stocks.
Also in my own self interest: I am for our government massively supporting poor kids with meals at schools, special tutoring, etc. in order for us to have a larger and better educated work force in the future.
Anyway sorry for the rant.
- NikolaNovak 4y agofwiw it didn't come through as a rant. Most of us if we are honest with ourselves have internal contradictions. It's important to be aware. My wife is fundamentally a socialist (we are in Canada so it's not a misunderstood bad scary word :-). But she is also a home depot manager, where she is the voice of capitalist market forces. What she wishes the system should be, and the system she is daily a part of, are frequently at odds. I personally find extremes of any given philosophy to be impractical and untenable. I respect more people who, like it appears yourself, say "this is my general leaning,and these are my pragmatical exceptions".
- spaetzleesser 4y agoIn today's world you can't really follow any ideology in a clean way. If you want to live you have to make compromises somewhere and basically be a hypocrite. I only have a problem with people that don't admit that (of which there are many and they are very loud).