As George Carlin used to say "F*** popular usage!"


They are good things to guide personal actions. They are not good things to guide the exercise of power. Empathy means identifying with someone else, which means making everything boil down to "them vs. us."

If only that were true. And even if it were, it just means they are not far-left socialists. Proper action on a single issue does not make them conservative. How are they doing on ending the war on terror and the more gratuitous and egregious usurpations of power by the government in general and the executive branch in particular? Simply trying to curtail spending in a budget with comically obscene deficits is hardly definitive proof of a particular ideological slant.
The saying may be real, but hardly true. Being able to understand and empathize with another's choices does not change whether they are right or wrong, or how you have to react to them. Tell ya what, you fucktarded hypocrite, why don't you show me the slightest evidence of giving me that courtesy, rather than simply demonizing a viewpoint with which you disagree? I gave reasons and laid out my philosophical issues. Only a gross lack of reading comprehension skills (admittedly an apparently endemic malady on this site) could leave one unaware of my reasoning, but all YOU provide are simplistic declarations, unsupported by any reason or evidence. The fact that you identify my philosophy as even remotely objectivist shows both your absolute lack of reasoning skills, and probably some serious ignorance of what objectivism actually entails.

And I never thought I would get to call you stupid, but the evidence is leaning that way. Not that I've actually noticed you out of the herd or can think of anything that you in particular have written. Maybe this post will stick.