[insuffi]

You have it all mixed up, my friend.

Some people want to think that a village idiot doesn't deserve to live a miserable life because he is a village idiot.

You're certainly pulling a lot of strawmen here. Come to think of it, almost reminds me of Fox News. They have a habit of demonizing the other group, just to make themselves feel better.

[mseebach]

> They have a habit of demonizing the other group, just to make themselves feel better.

Thank you for being the better person and not joining in.

[insuffi]

Care to point out where exactly in my reply it was that I was demonizing him? I was drawing parallels with a news outlet that has a habit of engaging into similar misrepresentations of situations.

[mseebach]

You're not demonising him as such, you're grossly misrepresenting what he wrote, presumably to further your own agenda.

The idea that he would think that a village idiot deserves to live a miserable life is entirely in your head, and quite at odds with the second paragraph of his comment.

[insuffi]

Except that's not what I'm doing at all.

I was trying to say that the inequality and "hatred" towards inequality and wealth(both claims unsubstantiated, with emotionally charged language)he is attributing to "socialists"(used as almost a slur in his text, also, wrong, social democracies are the wealthiest systems around) is in his head. You are the one misrepresenting my argument.

And just because we have it "better", doesn't mean everyone has at least a reasonable standard of living. Einstein should be earning a lot more, but a village idiot also deserves to not live in dire poverty.