Politics:
Fred Re Ryan Dancey's Second Take on Bush

Responding to Ryan Dancey's recent post, in part:

"I believe that the core of the Democratic party's philosophy is a belief that people are inherently evil. Most of the political positions and policies pursued by Democrats are predicated on the assumption that people won't do the right thing unless compelled to do so against their will, and that when people are not closely monitored they will always act to hurt other people."

I think you're wrong.

I believe that the core of the Democratic party's philosophy is a belief that people are predisposed towards evil. Most of the political positions and policies pursued by Democrats are predicated on the assumption that people are not likely to do the right thing unless it's in their best interests, and that when people are not closely monitored they will usually act to hurt other people, when it will benefit themselves.

I think they are right.

I think that people, on the average, are not so much "evil" as shortsighted, narrow-minded, uneducated, prejudiced, and unenlightened.

I think that the major philosophical systems of the world, whether religious or not, would back me up on this, too.

—Fred Wolke
November 2002

Whereas I see people as predisposed both to good and to evil. —JoT

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