What you call "Personal[ly]" in this comment - I call "political agenda". "Political agenda" is not necessarily good or bad. But in this particular case it's bad. These are reasons why: 1) Typically you know much better what you personally need than what other people need. 2) When instead of taking care of yourself you focus on taking care of distant others - at best you are wasting your personal resources (time, effort, money). At worst - you hurt people, because you have no clue about what they need. 3) Example: your "noble" propaganda for "more accountability" have pathetic unintended consequences: "red tape". Red tape makes organizations far less efficient. That means these organizations cannot pay as much salary anymore. That means that salad cost more than it could be otherwise. In the end it means people live worse, not better as you originally intended. 4) Blaming others for your problems is well known pitfall that hurts both individual people and societies, and therefore I consider such practice immoral.
But let me reiterate the importance of the video that maggiedacatt linked to: it pushes even people with immoral believes (blaming others for their problems) to do the right thing - drop government subsidies.
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Date: 2011-11-16 03:32 pm (UTC)"Political agenda" is not necessarily good or bad.
But in this particular case it's bad.
These are reasons why:
1) Typically you know much better what you personally need than what other people need.
2) When instead of taking care of yourself you focus on taking care of distant others - at best you are wasting your personal resources (time, effort, money). At worst - you hurt people, because you have no clue about what they need.
3) Example: your "noble" propaganda for "more accountability" have pathetic unintended consequences: "red tape".
Red tape makes organizations far less efficient. That means these organizations cannot pay as much salary anymore. That means that salad cost more than it could be otherwise. In the end it means people live worse, not better as you originally intended.
4) Blaming others for your problems is well known pitfall that hurts both individual people and societies, and therefore I consider such practice immoral.
But let me reiterate the importance of the video that maggiedacatt linked to:
it pushes even people with immoral believes (blaming others for their problems) to do the right thing - drop government subsidies.