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by Dul
Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:37 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Are socialists really more humane than individualists?
Replies: 27
Views: 16492

Sorry about going too far afield with your thread, I get carried away without anyone in front of me to give me confused or tired looks when I get on these things. I’ll try to contribute in the spirit of the points you addressed. Tell me to shut up and go away if’n you want to. To be clear, I don’t s...
by Dul
Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:50 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Are socialists really more humane than individualists?
Replies: 27
Views: 16492

Masashi, The website I mentioned seems to be back up - Timbro: EU vs. USA in publications - I don’t know how to make a link, but the search is an easy one. You bring up some aspects of the issue that I have avoided in my thinking at least half-consciously for a long time because of the challenge inh...
by Dul
Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:02 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: In one sentence or less: What is the purpose of life?
Replies: 54
Views: 32379

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." -Viktor Frankl ...
by Dul
Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:45 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Are socialists really more humane than individualists?
Replies: 27
Views: 16492

As a guest, I shouldn't post this long but things seem quiet here anyway. Another dichotomy that must be considered is that between intention and outcome. It is to a degree naively commendable to care about the lot of the poor in an unequal society. Those people who feel the pain of inequality keenl...