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[edit] Social issues in politics
Perhaps this is a result of too much time in Amherst, but many people I've met divide politics into "social issues" and "economic issues" as do the papers to some extent. Certainly that's what I was expecting here, rather than humanist platitudes about "social justice." Maybe the area term is unique to my area, but people here call the things you have here "social justice issues," whereas "social issues" are abortion, "women's issues," gun control, and gay rights. --71.192.116.13 00:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, in the notably Christian United States of America abortion and genetic science might be seen by some as social issues, however, then one could add there masturbation, gay love, biology and whatever else is forbidden or condemned in this particular religion. The difference between a social issue and an ideological one is that in the former case there are actual people who are physically affected by it (like war, unemployment, discrimination), when in the case of abortion/genetics there are no such people. -- 86.110.187.10 (talk) 14:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
