You can be as compassionate as you want. What you cant do is be compassionate with other peoples property. You do understand what it means to say that something doesnt belong to you, right? Or is that something we need to go over?
I would rather not share a society with people who appear to not care about other human beings.
You treat compassion as a blank check--so long as you do something in the name of the poor or the needy, anything goes.
Not sure what "reasoning" you used to derive that point from the posted point I had put up there, but OK.
Actually, I just think it is quite telling how little we actually care about our children and how much we actually care about our money.
I don't have kids and I don't love my money so much, so maybe I'm weird. I'd rather see all American kids have a better lot in life.
Hey, they're not my kids, but sadly I'm stuck in a society with them. Actually in all reality I'd rather see all the poor inner city kids helped than one single penny of my taxes go to support
anything that helps your kids or ChildofGod's kids. But I can't control where those taxes go. So money gets spent on police in
your neighborhoods, caring for
your kids and money goes to public schools that serve
your kids and I simply have no control over that.
Christians, and those who respect the rights of others, have to seek moral ways of achieving moral goals. You dont seem to burden yourself with such things.
How do you arrive at that conclusion? (I mean other than the fact that you disagree with me...how do you arrive at the fact that I am not relying on some sort of "morality"? )
Besides, I've already, at length described to you my "ethics" (utilitarianism is closest). So you've already heard it, you just couldn't be bothered with reading all the words...too many words bores lordbt...hard to read too much! Too much "detail"!)
The wealth in America belongs to individuals, not the collective. So your point here is irrelevant.
So the individuals owe
nothing to the society? We are all just independent operators? The ultrawealthy just happened to make money out of thin air?
Good for them.
Actually, we do. And we dont want it. If you want it so bad, move there.
Ya know, for all the posts of yours and ChildofGod's that I've read I'm going to have to go with your level of belief and say you
allegedly have traveled to social democracies in Europe. You talk so big about the horrors, but I don't ever see you describe your experience with them. As I've done numerous times, I've explained to you what I see every month when I go.
Most Americans
do not have passports. In fact according to the U.S. government's State Dept. only about 12 million Americans have passports (
SOURCE). That's only about 4% of the population.
Hmmm, people who do nothing by kvetch about creeping socialism, never talk details about what they've seen in social democracies, complain bitterly about taxation up against about a 96% chance of not being among the Americans who do have passports.
Wonder what conclusion I should draw from that. Hmmmmm.
(Oh and if you like, I actually have tried to get jobs in Europe. I actually like it quite a bit there. Only problem is, they put teeth in their 'hire citizens first' type of rules, so it's hard. But you'd know that if you actually knew "details" about much of anything outside of whatever little burgh you run your pest control or whatever kind of biz in. Allegedly. The world's a big place, lordbt. Doesn't look good to have such a non-grasp of details. Also, you could use for posting a few more citations like I do. If your point is anything more than your personal opinion maybe you can find support for it somewhere?)