Re: The just and the unjust ways to address modern racial inequality: affirmative act
None of the ideologies I know about I fit into well at all, except for Third Way, but I disagree with some of that as well. Either way this is completely irrelevant to whether affirmative action is a good policy or not, and I'm happy you agree with me that it's not a good idea.
I just consider the needs of others to be somewhere on my priorities list, definitely not at the top, but not at the bottom either. Sometimes there seems to be an obligation if it requires no great exertion (ex. holding the elevator door open), but often there is not.
Not quite, some liberal economic policies I support (not welfare though), and some conservative cultural policies I support (equality of opportunity; not affirmative action).
Socialism as such is rarely (if ever) better, but the free market is not always the best. For instance, many argue that there exists a "medical industrial complex" which is primarily responsible for the skyrocketing costs of health care, by encouraging physicians to prescribe unneeded or too expensive new drugs, by infiltrating the classroom and encouraging professors to teach sympathetic to corporate interests, by influencing doctors to recommend very expensive surgery which is sometimes unnecessary and often only temporarily effective, and so on. Perhaps those who argue that have a point.
Well, your original definition was only a list of three words, not even a sentence, so understanding exactly how you meant those three words was a little difficult.
You can't just pick and choose what you want your definition to apply to.
Well, if you want to define the ending of slavery as non-progressive, suit yourself.... although if you do that I'm not sure how many people will take you seriously.
