Liberal Forum

RichClem » 25 Jul 2014 2:38 pm » wrote: But thanks to greater economic freedom, China's government is slowly being pushed in the direction of greater political freedom, especially at the local level.

And thanks to greater economic freedom, not only is the average Chinese citizen not starving as they did under relatively pure Socialism, they're becoming much more prosperous.

I count as cheap the "humanitarianism" that is reserved for people whose farts you will never have to smell and whose differing opinions you will never have to tolerate, while that same "humanitarianism" is withheld from your neighbors and kinsmen who have the first and rightful claim to your natural affection. "Bootstraps" is your answer to their distress. "Take ours," is the answer you are happy - eager - to give people who are really just a vague concept of humanity - not humanity itself, up close and in your life.

Yours is the humanitarianism of show, of theater. Your sympathies lack the authenticity to be sustained in the world of face to face contact. But you can have nice "feelings" for a bunch of **** chinamen you'll never meet -and that makes you a regular Albert Schweitzer, a very liberal fellow in doling out your shallow affections and your nation's treasure.

Selling your birthright for a bowl of gruel is shameful. But selling your CHILDREN'S birthright?

Pathetic.