re: #295 Obdicut

Please demonstrate how it is faulty.

I have argued that someone may in fact put their own economic interest ahead of a social issue that they may in fact even believe in especially when it may seem remote to them. That they are not shitbags for doing so.

You have argued that that is akin to thinking it is ok for black people to have fewer rights than white.

I do not think that at all. There is nothing in any of my posts to suggest that I support or believe it is ethical to believe straight people are more entitled to marriage than gays. I don’t.

My point is that people are rational actors, that weigh priorities. The more remote an issue (or the perception of it), the less likely it is to impact their voting behavior. I do not believe that someone is by virtue of voting Republican on pocketbook issues that impact their lives necessarily a bigot and shitbag, or unethical. They may in fact be all those things, but one would need to dig a little deeper to figure that out.