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Originally posted by MaggieL
That's the same empty platitude twice in a row. "It is selfish not to do what you can...a civiized society does what it can". So if there is anything that you *could* do that you *haven't* done, then you have failed to "do what you can"...the ultimate blank check drawn on "somebody else". "Civilized society" takes a vow of poverty until everyone is happy, and no one has "fallen though the cracks". Socialism always gives it's proponents a delightful warm fuzzy self-righteous feel-good...but it's still ethically bankrupt at the core.
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And absolute adherance to capitalism gives its proponents a delightful warm fuzzy self-righteous feel-good sense because they don't have to care about anyone else. Capitalism works because it plays off of greed and rewards whoever is the greediest. It fails in a humanitarian sense for the same reason.
Neither should be strictly adhered to, but a blending of the two seems to be the best option available. That's the problem with ideology - people get stuck in the particulars of a specific mindset and can't understand that the proper road might be somewhere down the middle. I decry complete socialism as much as I do complete capitalism.