Distributism is nothing to do with ’spread it around’ Socialism, although it could probably do with a different name, cos it has that sort of ring to it. It’s a slightly utopian ideal in which capitalism works at a small and local level (ideally based around family units and small businesses), so that people work and see the fruit of it, rather than making corporations fatter. Kind of like pre-industrialised society worked. It also emphasises personal ownership (of property and of local issues) and reducing the impact of central government wherever possible. So it’s a quirky one – kind of capitalist and kind of libertarian, but social conscious and utterly opposed to multi-nationals and that sort of money-making palava. It originated (I think) with Catholic philosophers about a century ago, and I came across it by reading GK Chesterton.

Nice of Google to have bumped me into you mate. Farewell for the present …

As for the “abstinence doesn’t work”, my feeling is you need to educate your kids about sexuality and sexual health issues, so they understand the responsibility that comes along with it. Personally, I think the best deterrent for kids having early sex is understanding the implications of pregnancy or disease. Then, if you’ve raise a kid without teaching him/her that sex is immoral, then you probably end up creating a healthy, unrepressed adult who can participate in stable, loving relationships.

Jamie Lynn Spears and Sarah Palin’s daughter are just 2 high-profile examples of how abstinence doesn’t work. If they don’t understand, how it happens, then they don’t know how to avoid it.

What’s a “distributist”, is that what the right is going crazy about, calling Obama a socialist in that he thinks the rich should pay their share?

I have a question though: ‘abstinence doesn’t work’ sounds an awful lot like ‘guns don’t kill people, uneducated gun-owners do’ to my ears. Does it to yours? I’m from Britain, so I probably have a completely different set of cultural prejudices to you (eg. there is no ‘Christian right’ here to speak of), but I’d appreciate your thoughts. Thanks!

Anyway, I think the innitiative of PoliticalCompass is very interesting, the page seems to be very serious and quite unique as far as I know.

And “yeah”, about the final comment. Propaganda manipulates everything.

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