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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Say what you will, but we post-moral pragmatists are carbon friendly. We have only as many kids as we can afford (including paying for higher ed), which means fewer cars, less use of fuel, less energy consumption per household, less food consumption (lower methane!), less water consumption... hell -- less everything!

We also try not to send Junior into the student loan system, which means lower chance of default on taxpayer's dimes. And with the money we save voting for lower taxes every chance we get, we avoid taxing the state with benefit costs in our dotage.

We who don't believe anyone is owed or entitled to anything tend to be pretty solid stewards, as we expect to be treated with indifference.

Does the Moral State take care of us some? Of course it does. But we try to avoid having to depend on it. (Don't confuse the "hands off my Medicare" folks with us... they're dependents to the core -- big govt bigots.) We don't want to need any more than we want to be needed.

It's perhaps a chilly island, maybe a little mean to some, but it's got a low carbon footprint, and it tries to run in the black.

Why can't you be pragmatic AND moral?