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do you think that in your class should take all grades of all students and average them out and that everyone should pass no matter who did the most or least work, or do you think you should keep your grade that you worked for and if another student fails it is his responsibility and not yours?
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No, I don't want my grade averaged with yours because it would bring yours up.
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that would not be an issue since i graduated many years ago but still i commend you on the capitalistic thinking in your answer!
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Back then is when I wouldn't have wanted it averaged. And my point was to get you to look at the unexamined assumption you have that if things were averaged you's come out worse off. You're always in the lower 50% of something.
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after graduation, should the person who did the least amount of/and/or quality work get the best job available because he needs it more than other people who would do the job better?
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This is where you base your argument on a hypothetical that can't previously be known. We can't tell if the person who most needs the job will not also do the best job. Before people actually try to do something, we can't know who will do well and who not. If we did we would always chose the best person for the job.
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actually this is firmly grounded in reality. since we cannot tell that the person who needs the job the most will do the best job(as you yorself pointed out) it would make much more sense to get an idea of the quality of future performance from past performance...
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Nope, anybody who looks at this system knows well enough to cheat. Falsifying your past history is part of the capitalist's game.
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should a person who cannot or will not do their job properly be dismissed?
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Not if they're self employed.
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it would happen anyway, customers dissatisfied would find someone else...the business would die.
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That's ok after you have their life savings.
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what if they do not want to work at all?
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Everybody whats to fulfill himself, and that comes through achievement.
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many people fulfil themselves by doing nothing, after all why should they if the state will support them anyway?
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Nobody is fulfilled by doing nothing. That's not the nature of man. Although the ability to do nothing is a very important thing.
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what effect would this have on the quality of work done overall? what effect would it have on cost of production? what effect does cost of production have on the consumer?
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If everybody were achieving their inner desire for achievement, the world would be a paradise.
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that is of course assuming everyone had the same inner desires, and that those desires are benevolent, as we see in reality,this is quite often not the case. in fact many people achive thier inner desires by dominating thier fellow man.
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That they are the same is not an assumption. What you see is people not achieving them and what they do as a result. You think you know your hearts desire. I can assure you you do not. Wish you could read
this story.
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name one modern country where the end result of socialism/communism has proved beneficial overall to the welfare of the people and give historical evidence.
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Tibet and its history.
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fascinating. socialistic equality and harmony even despite the caste system? would you say the average tibetan has a higher quality of life than the average american do you know anyone from tibet? i know several people from there.
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Do you know anybody from Tibet when Tibet was Tibet? Would be sort of like comparing the greys to cave men.
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think them through!
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This flippant remark is a product of cultural saturation in a sitcom college world. It makes me feel terrible because I can't think. The grammar I use is from a whole other place. Spelling errors have been fixed.
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as long if i know what you mean is good enough, if i am not sure i will ask. that is my laid back "literdisestablimentarianist" approach hehe
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Feel free.