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you don't understand the present because you don't understand history.

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they aren't sending work overseas, they are sending work back in time.

Is that where we need to go though? Why should we be forced back in time? The corps are richer than even imaginable back then, and they won't be going back anytime soon. Why is it up to us to take the brunt?

they aren't sending work overseas, they are sending work back in time.

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"Unions are why companies are taking their business to other countries. It's a failing system. 40 hours a week... people should be working more than 40 hours a week. Workers comp. well that should be more dependant on circumstances. too many people take advantage of work comp in dishonest ways."

They're sending jobs overseas because the workers there are forced to live like dogs and are therefore cheaper and they can get richer.

So what you're saying here is that we should be working like they do overseas. 18 hour days, almost no pay, living in cardboard hovels, starting to work at age 8, etc etc. Is that right Gunter? Careful how you answer, judging by your insight you'll probably be one of them.

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Caring for your fellow man, or helping your friends and family is perfectly compatible with the pursuit of your own happiness.

Here are a few quotes from "The Virtue of Selfishness" which may help illustrate this:
"Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character."

"“Sacrifice” is the surrender of a greater value for the sake of a lesser one or of a nonvalue. Thus, altruism gauges a man’s virtue by the degree to which he surrenders, renounces or betrays his values (since help to a stranger or an enemy is regarded as more virtuous, less “selfish,” than help to those one loves)."

"Love and friendship are profoundly personal, selfish values: love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

A “selfless,” “disinterested” love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values.

Concern for the welfare of those one loves is a rational part of one’s selfish interests. If a man who is passionately in love with his wife spends a fortune to cure her of a dangerous illness, it would be absurd to claim that he does it as a “sacrifice” for her sake, not his own, and that it makes no difference to him, personally and selfishly, whether she lives or dies.

Any action that a man undertakes for the benefit of those he loves is not a sacrifice if, in the hierarchy of his values, in the total context of the choices open to him, it achieves that which is of greatest personal (and rational) importance to him. In the above example, his wife’s survival is of greater value to the husband than anything else that his money could buy, it is of greatest importance to his own happiness and, therefore, his action is not a sacrifice."

In reply to this comment by EnzoblueI don't feel my ultimate goal is pursuit of my own happiness. I also can't feel happiness when others around me suffer, so I'm somewhat altruistic at base and have been since I was a toddler, (so my mother says), and I find it a hard pill to swallow when she tells me I should defy that instinct.

Yeah it is, i'm sure everyone who watched the first part looked at the second, I reckon it's definitely worth a shot submitting it too. Leave me a link in pro if you decide to

Hey Jeff,
Just to let you know, I watched your vid and sent it through to someone else and we've got it to 9 for you, maybe you should beg it, it should be seen. Take care

Enzoblue,

You liked it enough when I sifted it, now DotDude's got it up...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mrs-Hughes-Live-at-the-Ice-House

It's ok, just breathe....

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Definitely, but every single one of these visionaries just fade away. I've seen so many world changing ideas in TED talks etc, and at the end of the day they're depressing because there's no hope in them actually changing anything in our lifetime or the next. Not so long as theirs profit in coal and debt and war and and and...

I just turned 43, it's really showing huh.

Discarded already. Just read the transcript here and you are right.

That only this got posted might be due to the fact that most people here prefer the quick media snack to heavy political meals...


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This is a dupe, and quite pathetic that of all the really important stuff he did say that this is the only thing that gets sifted.

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“that freaked me out you should have said more. i thought you were some chinese hater

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“God Bless the Dupont Chemical Corporation!” what do you mean”

Dupont Chemical Corp manufactured Napalm, and Agent Orange. There's a semi-infamous picture of a napalm bomb where a solder wrote the what I said on it.”

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“God Bless the Dupont Chemical Corporation!” what do you mean