<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Ben Goertzel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@goertzel.org" target="_blank">ben@goertzel.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> I guess I qualify as a "leftist" </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know what I am. It's good that rightist tend to be more in favor of the free market (with the important exception of farm subsidies) but their first response to any foreign crises tends to be to bomb somebody. <br>
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> To me leftism is about compassion and fairness more than anything else. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Compassion is a unambiguous good but fairness not so much, unlike the other virtues too much equality is not a good thing. However I will admit that on a personal level I like many leftists even when I disagree with them, and when some rightest agree with me I sometimes feel it's time for me to reexamine my position.<br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark<br></div><div> </div><br></div><br></div></div>