tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post111924775901615441..comments2024-01-09T15:21:52.135-08:00Comments on Sayet Right: Evan Sayethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989761214143022432noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-1119352247632516222005-06-21T04:10:00.000-07:002005-06-21T04:10:00.000-07:00To the Democrat the suffering of others is meaning...<I>To the Democrat the suffering of others is meaningless except in how it can be used as a tool for advancing their own agenda.</I><BR/><BR/>To which I would add "except in how it can be used <B>simply to flatter liberals' idioscyncratic morality -- a morality enabling them to feel, well, morally exhaulted, morally annointed, in contrast to feeble-minded Republicans. <I>Nothing</I> is more precious to a liberal/Leftist than his solipsistic, incestuous "morality.</B>"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-1119350707564887722005-06-21T03:45:00.000-07:002005-06-21T03:45:00.000-07:00While on the one hand the Democrat cannot understa...<I>While on the one hand the Democrat cannot understand the pain of others in their self-importance they see their own pain as the only thing of importance. Since Republicans cause the Democrats "pain" by besting them in political discourse and at the polls, and because Democrats have an exaggerated sense of self-importance, to the leftist there is no difference between Republians and Hitler.</I><BR/><BR/>Brilliant point!<BR/><BR/>(And it comes as an especially welcomed tonic, owing to my current difficulties of being in love with and dating a girl who -- believe it or not -- despises, with absolute white-hot intensity, Republicans. Though I somehow get a pass because I'm a registered libertarian).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-1119308774329977062005-06-20T16:06:00.000-07:002005-06-20T16:06:00.000-07:00I think largely on the same lines as you here. Yo...I think largely on the same lines as you here. You might be interested to read these two articles I wrote (the second one is much more concise than the first):<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/ebeltt_20040805.html" REL="nofollow">Liberalism is a Psychology</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/ebeltt_20050415.html" REL="nofollow">The Psychological Roots of Leftism</A><BR/><BR/>I do have one disagreement with you though.<BR/><BR/><I>Durbin can honestly believe in his sick mind that a lack of air conditioning is torture because he remembers the worst torture of his life...the time the air conditioning went out in his summer home.</I><BR/><BR/>You seem to be implying that people like this actually believe the things they're saying, and don't understand what real torture is. I don't agree with that.<BR/><BR/>I think those people understand the difference, but simply set it aside because it's inconvenient to their goal of feeling good about themselves. Leftists treat minor evils (or in the case of our interrogation of terrorists, significant goods) the same way reasonable people treat real evil because they want to be recognized as morally superior to the good people as well as the bad. There's no acclaim in condemning Nazis; it's simply expected. But only the "truly enlightened" also condemn the people who fought the Nazis for not doing it "right".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com