Selfish ideologies

Selfish ideologies are correlated with selfish behavior, or encourage it. It may be possible to quantify the degree of selfish conduct encouraged by an ideology. A name for this quantity could be the "selfish metric."

Characteristics of selfish ideologies include:

• reduced donations to charity, as a percentage of wealth or in absolute terms
• disproportionately large spending of taxes paid by others
• lack of charitable group activities, such as building hospitals, volunteering to teach, raising children (including adoptive and foster), and helping the less fortunate
• imposition of the self-interested desires of a few on a larger group in a manner that interferes with their enjoyment or values, as in a heckler's veto
• encouragement of self-centered, destructive behavior that causes harm to society or others
• inability or unwillingness to look objectively at oneself as the Prodigal Son did at his defining moment

The first two points are easily quantifiable. The third and fourth points can also quantified, though less easily so.

Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry (aka CRAP..sorry, mean CARM)

There are almost no real Conservative charitable organizations, and far fewer than Catholic charities. There are no creationist hospitals, for example. Fundamentalists donate to charity at far lower rate than Everyone Else.

Nations that become more Conservative (fascist) have fewer donations to charitable causes. Canadians, for example, donate to charity at a far lower rate than Americans, who tend to be more religious.

Conservative ideology

Both in theory and in practice, the conservative ideology allows or even encourages selfishness regardless of what economists describe as negative externalities (negative effects on others). For example, conservatives typically favor legalizing stupidity (I.E. Creationism), even though harmful effects of such idiocy can hurt others through an increase in driving accidents, higher education costs, and even creating horrific parodies of sites such as wikipedia.

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