Are the very wealthy paying their share?

[Thorn]

Yes, that's what I mean. You ****.

Do you have to end every statement with an insult, My first statement wasn't intended as an insult but a question...?

[KrazyHorse]

What makes favoring your own countrymen more repugnant than, say, favoring your own family members over strangers?

What makes favoring your own race over others more repugnant than favoring your family members over strangers?

[Thorn]

What makes favoring your own race over others more repugnant than favoring your family members over strangers?

What makes favoring your own species over others more repugnant......... tsk tsk....

[KrazyHorse]

If and when we meet intelligent aliens we'll talk.

[Thorn]

They don't want to meet us, thats why they are intelligent .

[giblets]

What makes favoring yourself over others not repugnant... what, I can't favor some people over others and still think racism is bad?

[KrazyHorse]

Based on nothing more than having been born in the same country? They're equally repugnant.

[Thorn]

Based on nothing more than having been born

.

[Aeson]

Those who support redistribution to these people in the US while there are others so much worse off are guilty of the most repugnant brand of chauvinism.

No.

[Egbert]

What makes favoring your own countrymen more repugnant than, say, favoring your own family members over strangers?

I'd feed my own family before I fed any of you lot.
I'd feed another Aussie rather than send the food to some foreign country.

favoring your own family members
favoring your own countrymen

[Thorn]

favoring your own species x 4

favoring life: x 5

favoring existence: x 6

[KrazyHorse]

No.

Yes

[notyoueither]

I think you need to explain why New Yorkers should not care about the welfare of their neighbours over people who live on another continent.

[notyoueither]

You also need to explain how people who have paid taxes to a government have less claim to services and help from that government than people who have no connection to that government.

[notyoueither]

Also, please explain how the political system works when you tell people who are electors for that system that they have no more import than people who have never heard of that system.