[ExI] Private and government R&D

[Mirco Romanato]

Stathis Papaioannou ha scritto:
> 2009/7/1 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>:

>> Don't confuse your desire to pretend you are good with actually being good.

> I'm not good, I admit that I'm bad. I don't give to charity, but I
> agree to be taxed, and demand that the *government* use the tax money
> eliminate the need for charity. Actually I don't even quite agree to
> be taxed, since I try to minimise my tax whenever I can. I would
> actually prefer it if everyone else were taxed, but an exception is
> made just for me. That isn't going to happen, so second best is that I
> get taxed along with everyone else.

So, in the future, could you avoid to trolling with false pretences of
morality?

What you have is a bad case of envy.
You want destroy what you can not be able to have for yourself: charity.

As you are unwilling to give freely, so others must be forced to give so
they can not give freely. If they would be able to give freely, you
would know other are better than you.

It is, at the bottom, a status symbol. Who that give freely a gift to
others in need show his power for other to see (reason for the
Christians don't like ostentation of generosity and advice to give
anonymously when possible). You, and people like you (usually socialist
of various stripes), hate that someone could show better than you.
Openly attacking them would be dangerous, so the next best thing is to
use others to attack them.

Claiming an entitlement is a status seeking. An entitlement raise the
status of the people receiving it, where receiving the charity of
someone lower their status.

Mirco