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Originally posted by bilmore
Read more carefully.
As I said, I participate in, and buy into, such policy, supporting those programs, as well as charitable stuff. My beef was with the philosophy that holds it to be, not a mark of my social conscience, but my moral obligation to do so. Remember, I was objecting to the phrase "my share of the burden". I think it's fair to call it charity. It's not my burden.
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A lot of people view social conscience and moral obligation to be roughly equivalent. I'm not sure I understand the distinction you make -- r perhaps the way you're using the terms. (I would say, for example, that folks are morally obliged to have, and act on, a social conscience.) Seems like a matter of semantics, but OK.
In defense of my reading comprehension, the point you responded with was in your second post on the issue, not the first, and I am notorious for failing to stp.
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