Journal jdavidb's Journal: Why politics is bitter conflict 4
According to Walter Williams, it's obvious: it's because we're making decisions for everybody instead of letting people be free. Thus, when one's preferences win out, it's necessarily at the expense of someone else who doesn't share those preferences. Of course they fight, bitterly.
The solution is to get government out of these decisions. Eliminate the political machinery that has the power to control these things, and then people will quit fighting for control of it.
But but but! (Score:1)
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What about my handouts?
Exactly. :-) Quoth Bastiat [bastiat.org]:
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I think you're correct: it is the only rational way to think.
The other way requires thinking that people are not free, but are instead subservient to society (or, to be more accurate, subservient to our own personal notions of what they should and should not do). I think people are free, and I witness the damage caused by thinking otherwise (your sex ed bickering issue being a prime example), and I cannot possibly think otherwise.