Chomsky is an anarchist and a pig.
The poor will always have with you.
Matthew 26:11
Aristotle took it for granted that a democracy should be fully participatory (with some notable exceptions, like women and slaves) and that it should aim for the common good. In order to achieve that, it has to ensure relative equality, “moderate and sufficient property” and “lasting prosperity” for everyone.
In other words, Aristotle felt that if you have extremes of poor and rich, you can’t talk seriously about democracy. Any true democracy has to be what we call today a welfare state—actually, an extreme form of one, far beyond anything envisioned in this century. (When I pointed this out at a press conference in Majorca, the
headlines in the Spanish papers read something like, If Aristotle were alive today, he’d be denounced as a dangerous radical. That’s probably true.)
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Chomsky is an anarchist and a pig.
The poor will always have with you.
Matthew 26:11
Callinectes (10-01-2022), Lionfish (10-04-2022), Stone (10-01-2022)
James Madison, who was no fool, noted the same problem, but
unlike Aristotle, he aimed to reduce democracy rather than poverty.
He believed that the primary goal of government is “to protect the
minority of the opulent against the majority.” As his colleague John
Jay was fond of putting it, “T he people who own the country ought
to govern it.”
The OP is just another argument in an attempt to change human nature. Humanity by its nature is not altruistic. To obtain equity among a society where the people in it are not physically, mentally, or otherwise all equal, and resources are less than universally abundant requires forced altruism on that society.
You cannot realistically expect a group of people to always act selflessly, particularly when doing so is not in their own best interests.al·tru·ism
[ˈaltro͞oˌizəm]
NOUN
the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others
Callinectes (10-01-2022), Celticguy (10-01-2022), Earl (10-01-2022), MAGA MAN (10-03-2022)
Another dud thread that has nada to do with a "Political forum for Current News Events."
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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martin (10-05-2022)
Those who can and do help pull civilization must be rewarded, they must have more than those who cant, or wont.
The bottom line is that conservatives cant admit to themselves the Evil they have allowed to romp on their watch.
This is going to hurt.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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