Clash of Virtue and Culture

Americans voted for a culture where wealth is redistributed through taxes and welfare,  the irony: I am going to school to become a Doctor, I could work for fish and I would still be in the top earning bracket of the country which means being part of the tax group who pays over half the bill for a party of 312 million, when I ask classmates why they would sign away the money and future they worked so hard for, their response is "I will have an accountant who will find all the loopholes so that I don't have to pay any taxes, because that is how the game is played." I am ashamed to say I am one in a generation who would vote to act dishonorably instead of voting so they might be honorable.

Charity

When there is a gun to my head I feel significantly less charitable.

Acting Philosophy: A Posteriori

Philosophical action is based upon the developed rationality. Since our rationality is developed, implying evolvement of some kind, it can only ever be based upon a posteriori reasoning. Philosophy is based on our existence and the effects from that existence, defined here as our experiences. This assumes you can not exist without constant experience. Using this assumption a priori reasoning is only a theory, since we can not truly know a reason before experience as long as we do exist and are experiencing.There can be a priori facts, for example gravity, but the existence of that fact is not dependent upon our reason, so still in this case our reasoning is of a posteriori origins, say the apple falling on Newton's head. Our existence comes before our reasoning abilities, then our reasoning abilities define our existence - the intelligence or conciousness that defines us as human. So our philosophies can only view a priori reasoning as either 1) a logic that exists outside ourselves as long as we do exist or 2) an hypothetical situation. Thus, any philosophical discussion is based upon a posteriori reasoning.