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Old 16-10-2011, 20:43   #28
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Re: Should taxes fund positive discrimination?

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Originally Posted by g jones View Post
The answer should be No. Just thinking latterly about all spending which is by definition money taken from one place and prioritised in another. Everything is some form of positive discrimination. Elderly, women, children.

It is an irreducible question. What the question is asking is should we divide people by age, yes. By disability absoluetly. By gender, occasionall. By race, very rarely (translation services for courts?).
This is pure jargon, right ... you seem to be ignoring the question, distancing yourself behind complexity so that even "The answer should be No" is ambiguous. Sometimes it's easier for politicians to discuss language, creating a sort of metadialogue (or, often, metamonologue) which pushes into the background the thing being discussed.
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