Why was Siddhartha Gautama's life in the palace so different from the lives of people in the nearby city and surrounding areas?
O Gautama's father did not believe in involving the family in worldly affairs.
O Gautama's family was Buddhist, while people in the surrounding areas were Hindu.
Gautama's mother feared that he would contract a deadly disease if he left the palace.
Gautama was born into the highest caste and had little contact with people in the lowest castes.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.