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Reply #133: I do plenty. But I'm not the one who is making a broad-brush attack on a class of people. You are. [View All]

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BzaDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 11:55 PM
Response to Reply #129
133. I do plenty. But I'm not the one who is making a broad-brush attack on a class of people. You are.
Edited on Mon Oct-05-09 12:01 AM by BzaDem
You are attacking rich people solely because they are rich. It doesn't matter whether they donate 90% of their money to charity, or support higher taxes for themselves. You don't distinguish. Your own words do not distinguish. Your own attack OP applies to yourself on your own terms. It doesn't matter what you give back. At the end of the day, you still have a much higher standard of living than millions of people. That alone implicates you by your own logic.

Of course, I disagree with your logic. I am not the one attacking people solely for having a higher standard of living than other people. So I personally don't believe you are a bad person because you don't lower your standard of living significantly. But according to your logic, you do, whether you realize it or not.

If you confined your attack to rich people who were not giving back, that would be a completely different story. Then your own logic would not implicate you (and your own logic would be much more sound).

But you aren't confining your attack, or even accepting that there can be any nuance in the question. You have a high net worth? You are a bad person who should be "Fucked." I think the main reason you eschewed any nuance is so that you could get many viewers and a big reaction, and you certainly have succeeded in that. But that motive doesn't make your post any more reasonable or correct.
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