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Actually, the first argument favours you because then you would be one of a smaller elite. The second argument also favours you, because you don't want to be re
by markessien 18y ago
Actually, the first argument favours you because then you would be one of a smaller elite. The second argument also favours you, because you don't want to be responsible for the caretaking of a sick child, and you don't want your offspring to have problems.
- cperciva 18y agoI guess if you look at things closely enough, anything I could ever argue for would favour me somehow. If I want to see more students in university, it favours me because I want to be hired to teach them; if I want fewer students, it favours me because I remain part of a smaller elite. If I think computer scientists should be paid more, it benefits me because I would earn more; if I think computer scientists should be paid less, it benefits me because it means that fewer people would enter the field and I'd have less competition. Somehow I get the feeling that we'd get more done if we stuck to arguing about policies rather than spending time dissecting the possible motives of their proponents.