Etzioni on The Spirit of Community

Amitai Etizioni discusses the foundations of communitarianism and finding a balance between individual rights and the responsibilities of community.

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[St37One]

@Pizuzuzimmer

I never said "fuck empathy"

But the idea that empathy solves more problems than it creates is an idea that I would expect a person with Williams Syndrome to come up with. Some people love machiavellian politics, and some people prefer to avoid politics. It just depends on the skills and comparative advantage of the individual. We really can take human feeling for granted, but the challenge that we are faced with is how to enhance human welfare.

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@St37One

Yeah, fuck empathy and human feeling for other humans. Let's just make lots of stuff.

God, you people are fucking dumb.

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@St37One

Hey, is that you, Stossel?

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@ruthiness

Who the fuck gave YOUR illiterate ass the right to tell others to leave the country? Fuck you, prick.

[Pizuzuzimmer]

@Taorta281

It's not hard to tell what 'news' channel you watch.

[Taorta281]

This guy lives in his mind, he seems to ignore the fact that almost half of our society are taking from those who produce, they are not giving or investing anything into the system they are only sucking off the producers! Those who produce do care and take care of those who cannot take care of themselves. Americans are not greedy...some maybe, but not all...it goes against G-d to force anyone to give...He gave us choice...no man can take it away...least of all any Government!

[crackahcrackah]

@SocialDemocrats That 's a lie. They're all over the place. Most jews are communists but they won't admit it publicly. COmmunitarianism is simply the merger between the two jewish systems Marx wrote about, communism and capitalism. The way you speak I would have to say you ARE a jew. People are wising up to your scams. It's a dirty shame for you sicko's that the talmud and the encyclopedia judaica are online and downloadable for all the non-jews to see where you are coming from.

[crackahcrackah]

Nothing like being told how to live by a scheming jew. These people control the currency issued from the private bank called the Federal Reserve. They devalue the currency, fund themselves and their ideology, which has broken up non-jew families, and destroyed the non-jew family unit. The term "society" represents 2 or more people and absolutely no one is obligated to work together or take from one another. Jews on non-jews, break them down and rebuild them into the slaves the talmud describes.

[SocialDemocrats]

First, There are hardly any "communists" anywhere in the U.S. None are running anything in the govt. Just a couple of years of Beck and look what happens. Millions of hapless lemmings literally believe a mass communist movement is afoot when its totally nonexistant.

Second, communitarianism is not communism or Marxism. The staggering, mindnumbing ignorance of people, esp. in the US, is extraordinary.