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» redback - Hope For Us Yet

In response to Hope For Us Yet posted by BrianTubbs:

Sometimes decisions precede the impotent opinion. So, we are faced with BS decisions. We don't like 'em but they're objective fact be it in health care or education etc. 'Getting it right first time, all the time' was a social policy mantra we had a few decades back that also didn't work.

"And I fail to see how liberal postmodernists, atheists, or agnostics can compellingly seize any objective high ground in these arguments"

I have trouble seeing how anyone knows what the objective high ground is, let alone is able to or prepared to pay extra taxes to achieve it. I'm also cynical of anyone claiming the more subjective, moral high ground.

The results of our 2006 Census are in. Left me to ponder how much WE drive things ourselves or is it like Pink suggests, significantly up to influences outside our control. How different is the USA to this Aussie snapshot?:

For the first time in 100 years, single people are in the majority. Childless couples increasing with only 45% of couples with kids, single-parents at nearly 16%. 40% of our people were born overseas. Nearly 19% of us have no religious affiliation, Catholics and Pentecostals are increasing while Protestants reducing. No: 2 religion is Buddhism followed by Islam followed by the fastest growing Hinduism.

-- posted by redback