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Really2

pqrdef wrote: »

But what if deficit reduction is the only way to avoid catastrophe and can't be achieved without cutting jobs?

Jobs will have to be cut, but it means less will be lost long term.

So again is best for the majority.

JonnyBravo

Really2 wrote: »

Jobs will have to be cut, but it means less will be lost long term.

So again is best for the majority.

Yet, if it was me to lose my job, I'd be against it.

Again I'm just not sure why this is "odd"?

I think what the OP meant is, he wishes people were more selfless?

Dan:_4

nearlynew wrote: »

Well I own 2 houses outright, yet I believe house prices are too high and want them to fall.

I will buy one for 50% market value if it helps?

Really2

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Yet, if it was me to lose my job, I'd be against it.

Again I'm just not sure why this is "odd"?

I think what the OP meant is, he wishes people were more selfless?

Yes agree, if it were me I would be against it.

We can't fight nature, it is ingrained in our DNA.
No animal put's it self up to get eat first or is happy about getting eaten.

Thus we are usually happy with things that suit us and unhappy with things that don't.

Hunter gathering is now hunting and gathering cash.

pqrdef

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Again I'm just not sure why this is "odd"?

It's "odd" that petrol prices go up fast when the oil price rises and come down more slowly when the oil price falls. Not really surprising or incomprehensible, but it goes against the ostensible logic.

nearlynew

Dan: wrote: »

I will buy one for 50% market value if it helps?

why would I want to sell below market value?

lostinrates

someone here said something I hadn';t thought of in quite that way in the run up to the election:

if we all voted for what would be best for us then the majority would get it and that would be democracy.


Now, beyond that we can apply our own ideologies to do more, but we can't choose to do less if the decision is made for us: only to seek to avoid it.

lostinrates

Really2 wrote: »

Yes agree, if it were me I would be against it.

We can't fight nature, it is ingrained in our DNA.
No animal put's it self up to get eat first or is happy about getting eaten.

Thus we are usually happy with things that suit us and unhappy with things that don't.

Hunter gathering is now hunting and gathering cash.

although I agree with this I would point out that people do put other people forward. e.g. I've ofered to work christmas in the past so that people with kids could have that off. People donate to charities and causes they believe in or feel connected to.

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

We can't fight nature, it is ingrained in our DNA.
No animal put's it self up to get eat first or is happy about getting eaten.

Many animals do actually.

Not put themselves forward to be eaten, per se, but many animals conciously tak the decision to pay the ultimate price for the benefit of others.

And many MANY people put themselves forward, not to benefit themselves, but to benefit others. We have thousands of heroes to thank, as an example.

nearlynew

Dan: wrote: »

I will buy one for 50% market value if it helps?

Why would I want to sell below market value?