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Politics : Evolution

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To: koan who wrote (18351)12/11/2011 4:05:04 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (4) of 69300
 
"We should provide free education to everyone starting at age 2.5 years old and going through a PHD."

Who is going to pay to educate everyone to a PHD level? You obviously cannot afford it and gregoree is a broke joke living in a subsidized house. Even Brumar with his lust for massive government intervention realizes it cannot be done.

Do you think everyone is capable of writing a doctorate thesis? Perhaps you think standards should be dumbed down to your level or maybe it just sounds good to say idiotic things when you´re stoned out of your tree.

Maybe Brumar is right and we need harsh laws for pot-smokers.

Altruism - Theory What is the moral code of altruism? The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.

Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, isself-sacrifice—which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction—which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selflessas a standard of the good.

Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you door do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: “No.” Altruism says: “Yes.” AR

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