tokaok

i think you hit a very good point here.

my take on it is that all people hold have thoughts/ideals/beliefs that they hold. such as well being of others, safety, wealth. but that these good intentions have only a limited area of influence before the immediate challenges of that person take a greater priority.

for example most people think that all should have a job that can let them support their fammily, feed and clothe their children. But the realities of their world force them to go shop at WalMart. at that point the one individual is making their values and hope a reality for themselves, but in a way hampering it for others(kid in philipines who made their sons sweater, and mother of 10 in africa who farmed their steak dinner for the night).

this person is not evil, and the same thing happens to CEO of large corporations, they see their kids and want they best for them and so they do by buying them say a brand new car. even tho this cost the lay off of one of their employess 1000 km away whoes children might bare even get break fast.

i dont know, for me its hard, im a quite liberal and socialist, but i believe that such programs (universal health care for all canadians) we need strong economic decision made by the powerful CEO who generate so many tax dollars, while at the same time hurt a small sub set of individuals.


it is the age old:
the sacrifice of the few vs the benefit of the many.

if one is in the many, then the cost of the few is acceptable.

but whne one is part of the few it is not.

what makes things harder is that for the general populace any one person
is can be part of the "few" or the "many" depending on the issue at hand.