On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I carry the same sort of judgement through to the debates over > (optional) government programs. You think that Social Security and > Medicare are socialist programs that should be eliminated? Fine, you > can work toward that. However, I expect that you should not be drawing > money from Social Security and Medicare either. Same thing goes for > stimulus grants. Yes, that means that you are foregoing potential > money that you could get out of the system and some of that money is > money that you put into the system. I understand that. But that is the > price of ethics. I fund the CIA and therefore In-Q-Tel. It would > reasonable for me to work for a In-Q-Tel backed company that gets a > lot of its revenue from intelligence agencies that I also help fund > through my taxes. But can I do that ethically? I don't know. Therefore > I have forgone the opportunity so far. That's how ethics works. > But isn't there a difference between having an "ethical" stance against a program and just a general disagreement with said program? I mean, I think my HOA dues suck, because I think we are getting jobbed by our trash pickup service. But, on Wednesday morning when the trash truck comes around...I still put my trash out there...i "partake in a program that I rail against". But I don't think that necessarily makes me a hypocrite. I don't think all republicans or conservatives would consider their opposition to the stimulus to necessarily be "ethically" based. More just their opinion on what makes for good government. -- Glittering prizes and endless compromises Shatter the illusion of integrity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329406 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
