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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (9096)9/5/2009 9:21:31 AM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) of 42652
 
.....Not to mention that best intentions have been known to produce opposite results.

Indeed. Good intentions are never enough and may actually turn out to be counterproductive as you say.

The reason I chimed in was only to make a point about attributing negative motives to people. I think that it's all but impossible to fairly accuse someone of negative motives such as not being concerned about "the general welfare." One most certainly cannot determine that from the simple fact that one has good intentions and the other party disagrees. But you find folks doing that all the time. I have good intentions; you don't subscribe to my plan; ergo, you do not have good intentions. Nope, doesn't logically follow.

The debate should be about what results are likely to come from someone's approach and whether those results are desirable or not, not about his intentions.
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