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Re:Shame on Y Combinator by civilian on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:28AM (#12734104)
Political positions are not moral positions. There's more than one way to accomplish a goal, and even if you share goals, it might be that you just think that the priority of these goals are different.

I think the best way to increase the American quality of life is to allow more choices, more trade, and reduce taxation. This gets me branded as being "anti-poor". I want the same thing as you, I just think there's different ways to go about it.

I'll granted that sometimes political positions come from moral positions, but they are not a 1:1 match, and you can't claim you know the best way to enact a set of moral positions.

Re:Shame on Y Combinator by genericpseudo on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:29AM (#12735407)
All positions on anything at all are moral positions; including your willingness to compromise to achieve goals.