why do I keep seeing liberal people embracing Confucianism

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kennethamy
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 05:54 pm
@Reconstructo,
Reconstructo;127957 wrote:


Also, I'm not playing the role of the activist here. I'm not saying these people are wrong for being selfish.


But, isn't it wrong to be selfish?
 
odenskrigare
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:20 pm
@kennethamy,
Lost1;127900 wrote:
I'm not seeing enough in your post to substantiate your shared thoughts, leaving my own conclusion to be the strong possiblity that your own conclusion about so called liberal people embracing Confucianism as perhaps incorrect.


well I haven't taken a poll

but I know quite a few instances of these kinds of people and they tend to share a number of things in common so my primitive mammalian brain drew some inferences from this pattern

take it as you will

kennethamy;127931 wrote:
I don't think I assimilated them. I just called them "Left-Liberal". And they do not form a monolith. There are, of course, gradations. The extreme, on the Left, is intolerable, and is a great danger to this country. You know who it is I mean.Move On, and the various organizations associated with it.


well I'm also in favor of what you'd call "universal health care" (although in truth, both private and public health plans ration care: I just think public plans do so more fairly) and protection of the environment, etc.

I'm just not a huge fan of radical multiculturalism

and most of all I'm in favor of not being an utterly biased inconsistent ponce

Reconstructo;127957 wrote:
Call me cynical, but I think most humans of every class put self and family far above more abstract considerations.


well not me

but I guess I'm a psychopath

kennethamy;127999 wrote:
But, isn't it wrong to be selfish?


depends entirely on your definition of "wrong" huh?
 
kennethamy
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:26 pm
@odenskrigare,
odenskrigare;128027 wrote:



depends entirely on your definition of "wrong" huh?


You think that to call someone "selfish" is a compliment?
 
odenskrigare
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:31 pm
@odenskrigare,
according to an Adam Smith angle on economics, sure, maybe

it's not without merit

paranoid psychotics in the military gave us the Internet and GPS so who's to say being selfish can't ever be useful?
 
kennethamy
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:32 pm
@odenskrigare,
odenskrigare;128035 wrote:
according to an Adam Smith angle on economics, sure, maybe

it's not without merit


The term Smith used was, "self-interest", not "selfish".
 
odenskrigare
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:33 pm
@odenskrigare,
alright you got me there

but see edit
 
kennethamy
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:35 pm
@odenskrigare,
odenskrigare;128038 wrote:
alright you got me there

but see edit


I didn't say that being selfish cannot be useful to the person who is selfish.
 
odenskrigare
 
Reply Sat 13 Feb, 2010 07:37 pm
@odenskrigare,
it could at least incidentally be useful to other people
 
 

 
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