Speaking of lawmakers
Politicians never accuse you of “greed” for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money.
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June 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am
It is called “projection”. Like when a liar calls you a liar when you aren’t.
Or a thief puts bars on his windows ’cause he knows he’d break in if it weren’t his place…
June 17th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Wow, that’s a good one. I’ve always said, “What’s more deserving of the term “greed”– wanting to keep your own property, or wanting to forcibly take property from others?
Sobran’s is better for mentioning politicians directly.
There are a number of ways to put it I suppose. Another would be; peaceable, voluntary exchange and the respect of property rights, verses the destruction of property rights and forced redistribution.
One of my favorites is; “Reason and cooperation verses force and fraud”. But most people won’t quite get it, I think. Too many will assume that the protection of property rights equals force, and I suppose it is. Then we have to make a distinction between the offensive and defensive uses of force.
They all fall apart unless you have first established some form of consensus on right and wrong. The socialist mind will look at these examples and be totally unmoved by them. Their idea of what is “Fair” (a big buzz word for them– “fairness”) is that which “levels the playing field” through redistribution. That you have more than someone else is proof of your greed, and, that someone else has less is proof that you’re both greedy and heartless (in the socialist’s mind, there is no such thing as creation of wealth, so if you have something it means someone else is denied it). Forcing you, at gunpoint if necessary, to give up what you have is a minor issue compared to the inequities that result from your unfair, immoral, and destructive hoarding of wealth. They’ll rationalize it a hundred thousand different ways, but however you slice it it comes down to the destruction of the very concept of human rights and the concentration of power into the hands of, as Ayn Rand put it, “a miniscule clique of rulers”.
If you haven’t read her book, “Capitalisn, the Unknown Ideal” then read it before you read anything else. “Man’s Rights”, an essay in the back of the book, is the starting point for any such conversation.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
‘Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer. ~ Joseph Sobran