If having brains is an unfair advantage, then why don't animals receive the same income as people?

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"if the freedom to choose one's path in life is important,..."

This is an exaggerated generalisation. The seeming importance of this freedom to choose one's path is derived from:
1) It allows one to choose good over evil.
2) No earthly authority can tell categorically and unmistakably whether another's particular action is good or evil, thus nobody is to block another's path, in case they, even inadvertently, block their very path of righteousness.

As the path of goodness is already open before everyone and in every situation, there is neither need nor duty for others to add new (and often confusing) options.

Just how many pairs of rose coloured glasses do you have to wear Max, to get Turnbull to stop looking like a smelly turd, & start looking like what you have described.

You wouldn't be completely blind, or at least one eyed would you old mate. Anyone who can mention Turnbull & Values in the same article has a perception problem.

Dear Max, Kevin Polly Waffle Turnbull is as close to pure evil as anybody in the land of OZ. Your knowledge of politics is extraordinarily naive.
The Liberal party claims to represent Australian businessmen & betrays them EVERY time.
The Labor party claims to represent Australian workers & betrays them EVERY time.
The National party claims to represent Australian farmers & betrays them EVERY time.
The watermelons claim to protect the environment & destroy it EVERY time.

Why vote for the major mistakes political parties? cut out the middle man, just sell your children, grand children & great grand children to the slave traders now. The Communist Chinese & Muslims are lined up waiting to buy slaves now, but the price will be lowering daily from now on.

As bad as Slick Willie Shorten is Malcolm Rudd is even worse. These changes to local government in NSW have nothing to do with getting at Clover Moore & everything to do with turning the Sydney City Council into another branch office of the City of London. Poverty creation is what the Liberal, Labor, National & Green parties ALL do TOGETHER, in bed with each other in Canberra.

enlightened, conservative, protesting Christians = good.

Everybody else = a different brand name of evil.

NO AUSTRALIAN CHILD WILL BE SAFE UNTIL EVERY MUSLIM & COMMUNIST HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED & DEPORTED, JAILED FOR LIFE OR KILLED.

Yuyutsu, if you are saying that EVERYTHING & EVERYONE is either good or evil then i agree.

Hasbeen, too true,

Turnbull is a classic "utility monster". The taxi driver analogy proves it. How horrid, we must be filthy rich, says Malcolm's argument, when so much less utility is afforded the humble taxi driver, who contributes equal energy to the pool of happiness!
In fact, Turnbull (as opposed to Hockey), struggles with a conscience. That is a dangerous ruler!

Any confirmation of that Turnbull anecdote about the taxi driver? Or is the other party dead?

Not that I doubt Turnbull, it is just that self-flattering stories told publicly, particularly those that place the teller on a moral pinnacle, do tend to trigger the BS detector, sending it into the red zone.

Hmmm, he is a banker and a politician too..

He knifed that dangerous Abbott though, so he must be telling the truth. That is, until the meeja and commentariat turn on him too.

Yes Yuyustu, and as for (return bill) Turnbull; one needs to factor in serendipity, and an ability to use other folks money without qualm to make your own, neither which can be said to be earned nor deserved, when compared with real earned by the sweat of the brow or personal endeavor/effort income!

And let's face it, some investment/tax lawyers/merchant bankers clearly overvalue their worth/skill set; and or, pad the bill we mugs out here in mugsville are asked to pay?

That said, I believe the man might have some visionary ideas, even if he had to borrow them?
Rhrosty.