> Communities don’t just happen, they are intentionally constructed.
I, personally, agree with your informative pseudo-rebuttal (it's polite and impartial so not really anti-them).
However, the philosophical difference is that
> they are intentionally constructed
is precisely the point, they might say.
I've come to realize, after spending time with them and reading "righteous mind", that the difference is so fundamental it requires a lot more power to cross divides than I have. I simply have to recognize the right and good intent in what they do, rather than denigrate it as "not enough" or "in the slightly wrong direction even if enough".
I imagine a world in which they decline to pay, and therefore to receive, benefits from wealth redistribution, and urbanites who are highly paid like ourselves subsidize other urbanites who are not. I also realize this world would have "rural" covens of uber rich, and so it will not be more just.
I, personally, agree with your informative pseudo-rebuttal (it's polite and impartial so not really anti-them).
However, the philosophical difference is that
> they are intentionally constructed
is precisely the point, they might say.
I've come to realize, after spending time with them and reading "righteous mind", that the difference is so fundamental it requires a lot more power to cross divides than I have. I simply have to recognize the right and good intent in what they do, rather than denigrate it as "not enough" or "in the slightly wrong direction even if enough".
I imagine a world in which they decline to pay, and therefore to receive, benefits from wealth redistribution, and urbanites who are highly paid like ourselves subsidize other urbanites who are not. I also realize this world would have "rural" covens of uber rich, and so it will not be more just.