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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2019-03-28 12:57 pm
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[personal profile] alithea 2019-03-28 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I used to think they were mostly decent-ish people I happened to fundamentally disagree with, but now I'm inclined to consider them selfish bastards who shouldn't be allowed to run anything because they don't care about anyone who isn't rich enough to not need public services.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2019-03-29 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's not just that they don't care about people who can't afford to provide their own services (and self-insure for all the things you *might* need).

I can see an argument, both economic and philosophical that people ought to stand on their own two feet. I don't agree with it. I think that philosophy doesn't work well in practice and causes more problems than it solves and it also strikes me as pretty bleak and that we could do better as a species but I see the legitimacy of the debate.

What's getting me at the moment is the Tories inability to see that what is in their own personal and group interests is not the same as what is in the interests of other groups or the nation as a whole. Britain is not the Tory Party.
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[personal profile] alithea 2019-03-29 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, selfish bastards covers that for me but obviously YMMV :)