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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: koan who wrote (1689)12/10/2016 8:48:08 PM
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Taking care of people who need help is surely a feature of a successful society but hardly the definitive measure of it.

It is to the degree we want a moral society-lol.
Indeed, there ARE degrees of morality. And different flavors of morality. If you define success solely in terms of the care foundation of morality, then you are correct, sort of--but only due to circular logic. If maximizing care is a society's overriding measure of success, care would deteriorate over time due to lack of resources. It's self defeating. The ability of a society to provide care at the macro level depends on having the resources to provide. If you put all your energy and incentivess into giving care and not into building resource stores, that is, exercise poor stewardship, your society collapses. Letting your society collapse results in harm rather than care and is thus is immoral.
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