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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: "Right-Wing" politics are basically a justification for selfishness.

According to Wikipedia:

> Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.

For the purposes of this discussion, that is the definition I will use, and want to be convinced is anything but selfishness that is afraid to admit to being so. If you have a different definition of "right-wing", then feel free to comment but I probably won't reply because that would be a different discussion.

My reasoning follows thus: Lets assume there is some natural law that says that hierarchies arise naturally in complicated systems - I actually believe that is true. Let's also assume, at first, that you are the type of right-winger who *doesn't* see these hierarchies as a good thing. As conscious beings, we have the choice to counteract the negative effects of these hierarchies while acknowledging their existence, or even inevitability. I think disease and medicine are a perfect analogy. Everybody will inevitably die of some disease whether by infection by external organism or by the natural degradation of our own body. But as a society, we have decided that in the process of dying, we should mitigate the negative effects of disease and aging to the best of our ability. We have committed enormous effort into the field of medicine. Similarly perfect egalitarianism will never be achieved in any stable way, but assuming again that you *don't* believe these hierarchies are good, why other than for purely selfish reasons would you invoke "natural law" to defend them to defend socioeconomic systems that keep people oppressed, sick, hungry and uneducated when we could easily eradicate these social ills? You may as well say that studying medicine is pointless because everybody will die anyway.

Now, onto those who *do* see these hierarchies as a good thing. Unless you are at the bottom of these hierarchies and have little chance of traversing up them, you are benefiting from them. To defend them, except from the very bottom, is for purely selfish reasons.

EDIT: I'll have to log off for a bit, but I'll try to get to everybody's top level responses later.
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Right wing individuals don't see economic inequality as a major issue. Why is it a problem if someone has more money than you? We care more about the overall prosperity and think the cost of economic equality is too high. 

We are strong supporters of supply side economics. We want to make it so that businesses can succeed, so that it can create more jobs, increasing the demand for workers. We also want to foster an environment where multiple businesses can succeed and then compete with each other. When businesses compete with each other for customers, the prices of goods drops and new products are invented. When businesses compete with each other over employees, wages increase. We see redistributionist policies as dangerous to the success of businesses and thus dangerous to everybody buying from or working for american companies because they stunt the ability for new businesses to arise and for businesses to create new products or create more cheaper ways to produce products. People get rich by spending money, creating jobs and new technologies that benefit everyone.(Increasing the size of the pie) They don't get rich by doing nothing with their money. 

Right-Wingers also donate more than those on the left.