Bin Ladin would be FAR more likely to say “people who use pornography should be killed and then tortured forever” than a Western politician, even if the latter endorses an ideology that says the same thing.
People who write about their ideologies are a VERY select sub-set of those who associate with those ideologies. The Paul Graham’s and Warren Buffets of the world do like capitalism and think it benefits everyone. So do I relative to most plausible alternatives. That doesn’t mean that the people who actually work in the day-to-day jobs as traders etc think that they are doing anything productive or care whether they are.
Bin Ladin would be FAR more likely to say “people who use pornography should be killed and then tortured forever” than a Western politician, even if the latter endorses an ideology that says the same thing.
People who write about their ideologies are a VERY select sub-set of those who associate with those ideologies. The Paul Graham’s and Warren Buffets of the world do like capitalism and think it benefits everyone. So do I relative to most plausible alternatives. That doesn’t mean that the people who actually work in the day-to-day jobs as traders etc think that they are doing anything productive or care whether they are.
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/just_this_once_lets_stay_up_all is MUCH more common, and IS what they really believe in.