Yeah but that's the whole thing about collectivising things like this - what's indiscriminate to you or me is not to someone else. Everyone has their own individual feelings about who deserves and...
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Yeah but that's the whole thing about collectivising things like this - what's indiscriminate to you or me is not to someone else. Everyone has their own individual feelings about who deserves and...
I do see your point, but I also have issues with welfarism in this sense - the disconnectedness or distance you talk about is sometimes a complete disconnectedness at the level of world-view,...
Meh, I think this is kind of a fine distinction - if you're organising production for the benefit of everyone, that implies that the group is the highest priority, that the individual must put...
Well, let's not get to discussing what's real or not. That wasn't the point, the point was, that at the heart of socialism is the idea that the individual must sacrifice for the sake of others - I...
I think it's more fundamental than that even - embedded in socialism is the idea of people as a group; "society", but as someone once said, there's no such thing as society - there are individuals,...
72 - I think we'll agree to disagree, however there's one thing we certainly can agree on:
Well, it's kind of a tangent but evolution does not progress towards a "higher" or better target, it converges towards a more _adapted_ state. A more evolved creature isn't necessarily "better", it's...
Nonsense. This is like saying that every chimp in the forest deserves a certain number of bananas. Try to rationally explain this property of "deserving" in relation to a chimp who has no bananas.
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Without getting too involved in the debate here, I think this sentence badly needs clarifying. What we (in basically the entire Western world) live in is not a capitalist system, it's a system in...