http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/08/17/paying-lip-service-to-selflessness/ One side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:24:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/08/17/paying-lip-service-to-selflessness/#comment-160 bpoi Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:47:40 +0000 http://autonomy.blogivists.com/?p=113#comment-160 What? I don't think you understood this post... What? I don’t think you understood this post…

]]> http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/08/17/paying-lip-service-to-selflessness/#comment-159 pragmaticallypolitical Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:59:44 +0000 http://autonomy.blogivists.com/?p=113#comment-159 Saying you aren't comparing Obama to Hitler and then making a post that has no relation to Hitler with a Hitler video front-and-center doesn't mean you aren't comparing Obama to Hitler. Seriously, your academic legitimacy and integrity are taking a severe beating. Saying you aren’t comparing Obama to Hitler and then making a post that has no relation to Hitler with a Hitler video front-and-center doesn’t mean you aren’t comparing Obama to Hitler.
Seriously, your academic legitimacy and integrity are taking a severe beating.

]]> http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/08/17/paying-lip-service-to-selflessness/#comment-153 george Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:52:34 +0000 http://autonomy.blogivists.com/?p=113#comment-153 We have to wonder, how can these guys say this and still try to get us to decide to vote for them? If we need to crack down on self-interest, I suppose I should vote against my self-interst, which would consist of them trying to persuade me that voting for them will impact my life negatively but improve the lives of others. So much for the traditional salesman model of "It will be good for you if you vote for me"; we can only uphold selflessness and persuasion at the same time if we furher dissociate benefits of a given administration from the individual and reallocate them to some floating abstraction like "the public". We have to wonder, how can these guys say this and still try to get us to decide to vote for them? If we need to crack down on self-interest, I suppose I should vote against my self-interst, which would consist of them trying to persuade me that voting for them will impact my life negatively but improve the lives of others. So much for the traditional salesman model of “It will be good for you if you vote for me”; we can only uphold selflessness and persuasion at the same time if we furher dissociate benefits of a given administration from the individual and reallocate them to some floating abstraction like “the public”.

]]> http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/08/17/paying-lip-service-to-selflessness/#comment-152 thesilentmajority Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:51:28 +0000 http://autonomy.blogivists.com/?p=113#comment-152 Keep comparing people to Hitler, Bill. It's funny, and people that have a problem with it are Nazis. Keep comparing people to Hitler, Bill. It’s funny, and people that have a problem with it are Nazis.

]]> http://autonomy.blogivists.com/2008/08/17/paying-lip-service-to-selflessness/#comment-151 Nicky Cheese Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:15:17 +0000 http://autonomy.blogivists.com/?p=113#comment-151 Haha: "Besides, that’s just what I do: I compare people to Hitler." I appreciate your forthright honesty. Haha: “Besides, that’s just what I do: I compare people to Hitler.” I appreciate your forthright honesty.

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