[extropy-chat] Politics

[The Avantguardian]

--- Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try rephrasing what you have just written from (say)
> the standpoint of a
> Confucian perspective where individual rights are
> subservient to family duty
> and social coherence. You might end up with
> something like... "And usually
> these clashes can be reduced to religious or
> political views in which social
> values (the duty to society) are not respected."

I find your statement here is especially pertinent to
me, Dirk. I am half American and half Korean, so I
walk a tightrope between my selfish individualism and
my sense of duty to society. The actions that I take
the most pride in are the ones that allow me to
simultaneously satisfy both.
 

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. . ."

- Albert Einstein, "What I Believe" (1930)


		
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