[ExI] Be nice to leftists

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:20 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:40 AM, William Flynn Wallace <
> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>…The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt (social psychologist).
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> >…### I loved this book, not just because I work just a mile away from
> Professor Haidt.
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> But there is one failing - it does not account for the much higher levels
> of hypocrisy among leftists…Rafal
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> I considered it a most insightful work.  There was something I saw in
> there I consider a major flaw: Professor Haidt used the term fairness
> without fully explaining that the right and the left each have their own
> definition of the term.  Each considers the other’s definition of fairness
> as unfairness.  The right considers it fair if everyone has equal
> opportunity.  The left considers it fair if everyone has equal outcomes.
> Which are you?
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> spike
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> ​I strongly dispute the comment about the left.  Maybe it characterizes
the extreme left, but certainly not us moderate ones.  In fact, I never
heard of anyone who thinks everyone should make the same money, or get the
same outcome in any way.  We are most definitely not against competition
and winning.​

​And I am still waiting for Ra​fal's data about the higher hypocrisy among
leftists.

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