Reply #16: and do you knee jerk much?

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Liberals SUPPORT charitable ACTIONS. Interestingly they did not measure this therefore this study is simply meant to make wealthy people feel better that others suffer because they have blocked social programs designed to help them.

Conservatives support tax deductible CONTRIBUTIONS to their favorite private charities.


Willett is claiming that "The single biggest predictor of someone's altruism, Willett says, is religion. It increasingly correlates with conservative political affiliations because, as Brooks' book says, "the percentage of self-described Democrats who say they have 'no religion' has more than quadrupled since the early 1970s."

HA HA HA That's a lie. Religion may be the biggest predictor of the donations they make to religious charities but it is NOT predicting their altruism.

ALTRUISM means: "unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others" It doesn't mean total money donated to charities.

This stupid study is measuring money, not unselfish regard.

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