From: Arlo Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 17:07:51 BST
Platt,
At 08:54 AM 9/19/2005, you wrote:
>Arlo,
>
>In future conversations I'll try to keep in mind that you're against
>affirmative action, gun control, social security status quo, abortion
>rights, moral relativity (postmodernism)
Aaahhh... now cut that out. "Moral relativity" and "postmodernism" are not
synonyms. Besides the fact that there are many strands of what is
generically labeled "postmodernism", most do not preach something as banal
as "moral relativism". Pirsig is, in fact, in many ways a postmodernist.
> and redistribution of income
>(although I wonder how that can be when you favor welfare with two
>asterisks).
Well... namely because I don't think "welfare" is "redistribution of
income". I think of it as a moral social obligation to not let poor people
starve, or go shelterless, or die due to illnesses they don't have capital
to treat. Now, as far as saying that the bureaucratic system of "welfare"
needs fixing and tweaking and redress in certain areas, I'd completely
agree. Calling it a "redistribution of income" is like condemning public
libraries for "taking knowledge from the rich and giving it to the poor".
>As for the against list, I guess M stands for money but I've
>no idea what K, T and V stand for.
Money. Killing. Theocracy. Violence.
> Finally, your taxes have probably
>increased due to your increased income over the last 6 years, thanks to
>Dubya's economic policies, but no thanks to the unfair, unequal
>progressive income tax.
Actually, over the past 5 years I have had no real raise in income, an
insubstantial 1.5% here and there, but we are constantly told there is no
money for salary increases. So, not only am I paying more taxes now than 5
years ago, but with inflation my income is actually less. Before that
period, we had been receiving cost-of-living raises as well as performance
raises.
Arlo
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