socjus

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by socjus 17y ago
This guy writes about as well as J.K. Rowling.
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by socjus 17y ago
I don't think it's actually that general, because some of those things are better handled through groups of people rather than on an individual level. This is a reasonable point. But bear in mind that DBM's original point is subtly differ
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by socjus 17y ago
If your original comment really does imply nothing beyond what it literally said, it is superfluous. All it offers is a correlation - which is insufficient to show whether poverty causes stupidity or the opposite - and a qualitative, unsubs
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by socjus 17y ago
The notion however that your future path is set because of your past choices is part of the myth that the poor need to have destroyed through education. Tomorrow is about what you do tomorrow, not about what you did yesterday. Only if you
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by socjus 17y ago
A second problem with your comment occurs to me. We can safely assume that earl and other people in this thread arguing in favour of state support of the needy don't believe that private charity is adequate. (If they did, why would they arg
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by socjus 17y ago
I'm not saying don't help people. I'm saying that lofty, praiseworthy feel-good rhetoric does not fix a damn thing. Instead everybody just smiles and nods and agrees to spend money. If you or I have a hell of a time fixing one poor person,
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by socjus 17y ago
It sounds as if you're no longer talking about race but ancestral nationality.
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by socjus 17y ago
"I agree that people shouldn't be treated differently in civil society based on their race, and who doesn't? But they should certainly be treated differently based on their race by their doctors." Maybe they should be treated differently ba
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by socjus 17y ago
It's racist but that doesn't mean it's not ok, like affirmative action.