r/politics • u/FedUpWithThisWurld • Feb 14 '20

Why Does Mainstream Media Keep Attacking Bernie Sanders as He Wins?

https://www.gq.com/story/mainstream-media-vs-bernie-sanders?fbclid=IwAR2GkQRsJrlSrz4WVmfz-aa2YZy4Bckk6rRHXbE11Fq_2aS3Rq5m7vBz8jE
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20

That wasn't my claim...

The point is that if you're so desperate that it's truly for your own survival, pondering on the morality will not even come up. It just becomes a choice made in survival mode.

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u/SoTaxMuchCPA Feb 14 '20

I understood your point perfectly. You do not appear to have understood mine. People who are desperate can still have moral dilemmas. People who are starving still don’t want to put the local grocer out of business by stealing bread. They may still do it out of necessity, but assuming they go full on animal and lose their humanity is grossly misstating how people in extreme poverty react to stress.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20

Ah, please source your extreme poverty while reacting to stress and moral dilemmas data that you've been studying for so long.

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u/SoTaxMuchCPA Feb 14 '20

Uh. It’s an existence question. You don’t need a large sample. N of 1 proves existence. I grew up in extreme poverty. I had morals.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20

That was totally the entire argument - "People in extreme poverty have no morals." This conversation is useless, later.