Sorry for writing in English. I’m away without my Hebrew keyboard.

I’m not sure why this is a problematic thread – except if no one is interested, which will stop the thread anyway.

You may be right that the capitalist will tend to help the needy but that’s not the point. I think the capitalist will view less people as “needy” than the socialist.

The capitalist (or the individualist) tends to take more responsibility for his actions and expects others to do the same – if they don’t; he thinks it is their choice (except in extreme cases like disability). In any case, equality is not his goal.

The socialist looks at the same situation and sees many more people as “needy”. His focus is not in the responsibility that people take (or don’t take) but more in the difference between what people have (or have not) because he believes it is not their fault or choice. In that sense he is more empathic, forgiving, “humanistic”. He will cease seeing “needy” people when they will all be equal.

Of course these are generalizations and may not fit some specific individuals

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BTW, I found this and I think it is intresting:
http://www.tomkins.org/PDF/library/articles/polarity...

Ha, I think you don’t have a problem with the thread (you are still here) but you don’t accept my hypothesis about the psyci-ido correlation. That’s cool. It is only a hypothesis. All I wanted to show is that this is not an unrealistic-crazy idea.

Here is another quote from a research I found on the subject:

The parallels between the two fields of research - values and trait inferences - go beyond the superficial similarity of key words used and involve some intriguing correspondences in empirical findings in both areas, despite the lack of inter- reference and some important differences in theoretical languages and methods of research. This is, for example, visible in the case of a distinction between competence-related and moral traits on the one hand, and a distinction between individualistic and collectivistic values on the other.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/...

Regarding few of your points:

Right, but this is the official criteria. We argue here about the “desired” criteria.

Right again. But I try to understand *WHY*