So my Republican Dad says, "Half the country is on some government entitlement program...."

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29. Pride and selfishness, evil ways of thinking, lack of empathy, sociopathic tendancies

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but after many years of paying attention to people like this and living with them (relatives), I am conviced that other than a minority, most simply don't really *want any responsability regarding the world around them. Even those who sometimes do good things because of their "faith", most of them do it because they believe they are going to get something out of it... salvation, favor of God, spiritual karma, etc. Most of their "acts of kindness" are short term emotionally charged acts (a person they emotionally get involved with from a tv story, an act of bravery in an intense situation) or involve close personal relationships (which they have a stake in) which is seems like the things that can move them out of their super self focus.

I have come to the conclusion that the "dividing" line between the "forces for good" vs "forces for evil" really mostly comes down to those who care about others vs those who mostly only care about themselves.

It could be a change in evolution? Older evolutionary methods that used to work for survival vs those who have "evolved" to understand that "survival" of their genes relies on progressing humanity past the old ways?