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So you don't believe that he was saying that the charitable spirit of people giving to help those who are in need is what he finds uplifting. Instead you believe that it is the fact that people are in need - that is what he finds uplifting. Do you think that is a realistic thing to believe...

Nobody accuses those people you have listed of not caring about people. Nobody questions their motives, people do vigorously question their methods, but only on the merits of the argument. Funny enough I have big problems with most of those people you listed, they are all people who do what I...

I would agree that some of the IRA stuff might be borderline, in so far as it suggested he supported terrorism, but my understanding was always that he was being criticized for seeming to show support for those who were using violence, rather than supporting the use of violence itself. The...

I think you are right it's not going to be absolute, but I stand by my assertion that there is a tendency towards attacking the moral character of conservatives and that tendency is not generally reciprocated by conservatives. But then there is good reason for that, in my opinion. Liberal...

Not really, that's an ugly front page (I don't read the Sun so I hadn't seen it), and I'm not claiming JC gets treated with kid gloves, far from it. But the attacks against JC seem to me to always be focused on policy, even that front page, ugly as it is. Conservatives often get accused of...

I honestly don't think I have ever heard anyone suggest that JC is a bad person. Seriously I cannot think of one occassion. Misguided, yes, wrong, yes, but never ever a bad person with bad motives or bad intentions. Just yesterday I read through an entire thread on here jam packed full of...

Charity = the peoples money given voluntarily. Government = the peoples money taken by force. Nobody is celebrating the need for foodbanks, but where there is a need, and that need is being met by the kindness of people, that is a good thing, not a bad thing.

He said that the charitable spirit of food banks is 'rather uplifting'. It is. OP it almost sounds like you would have people believe that JRM was saying that people needing foodbanks is 'rather uplifting'. The difference between those two sentiments is night and day, and this is why I...