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Male/27
USA
Protestant/Phenomenologist
My official political affiliation is 'wierd'; I vote Democrat, but Scalia is my favorite Supreme Court justice.
My problem answering this survey is that I have a distinction between what is right and what is good. I'm still working out the distinction, so I can't give a very good definition of it, but in a nutshell, if someone acts in a way that is right, they're a decent human being; if someone acts in a way that's good, they're a saint. Or, right is a Kantian based ethic, good is a virtue based ethic. Or, right is what morality requires from the standpoint of natural reason, good is what transcends that. Anyway, by means of the Right, you can get two or possibly three, but the Good requires both 9 and 10 (if you ignore the political consequences of 9, and only focus on what it requires of *you*). The minimalist concept of the Good is that we treat others as we would be treated, and this requires that we aid others as much as we can. The Right doesn't require nearly as much.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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