Message from @SilverLining

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2018-09-25 03:26:34 UTC  

This is what Marxists strive for

2018-09-25 03:26:40 UTC  

This is what liberals strive for

2018-09-25 03:26:56 UTC  

Heavily debateable

2018-09-25 03:27:02 UTC  

Actually not even debateable, just false

2018-09-25 03:27:11 UTC  

Kinda don't think Hitler wanted to make der Juden happy

2018-09-25 03:27:24 UTC  

Kinda don't think white supremacists care much about how happy non-whites are

2018-09-25 03:27:35 UTC  

and both before the law and financially, more or less

2018-09-25 03:27:43 UTC  

As without one or the other, such equity won't exist

2018-09-25 03:27:43 UTC  

Counterpoint: What did Hitler think eliminating the Jews would do for everyone else? @SilverLining

2018-09-25 03:27:53 UTC  

He thought it would make the world better, no?

2018-09-25 03:28:08 UTC  

He strove to make Aryans/Germanics happy

2018-09-25 03:28:11 UTC  

Not all people

2018-09-25 03:28:18 UTC  

I mean, he didn't intend to eliminate the slavs, iirc

2018-09-25 03:28:23 UTC  

he intended to use them as slave labor

2018-09-25 03:28:53 UTC  

It's striving to increase the happiness of a particular group

2018-09-25 03:28:56 UTC  

Rather than of everyone

2018-09-25 03:29:00 UTC  

"Kinda don't think white supremacists care much about how happy non-whites are"

You're looking at it the wrong way, they believe helping other races is going to harm more people than help

2018-09-25 03:29:12 UTC  

So like

2018-09-25 03:29:26 UTC  

Lynching African Americans isn't making African Americans less happy

2018-09-25 03:30:17 UTC  

You can easily argue they intend to make certain subsets happier

2018-09-25 03:30:21 UTC  

But not humanity as a whole

2018-09-25 03:30:30 UTC  

Well those people do it with the intention of "keeping blacks in their place" and from "hurting white people" etc

Most evil men throughout history had a selfless aspect to their ideology @SilverLining

2018-09-25 03:30:36 UTC  

Russian Empire should be revived

2018-09-25 03:30:38 UTC  

some kind, at least

2018-09-25 03:30:52 UTC  

Why do you think Hitler killed so many people?

2018-09-25 03:30:59 UTC  

Because he thought the world would be better if he did

2018-09-25 03:31:01 UTC  

To "help" another group of people

2018-09-25 03:31:13 UTC  

Again, he didn't really care about said other group

2018-09-25 03:31:16 UTC  

or their wellbeing

2018-09-25 03:31:21 UTC  

Which is what I'm trying to emphasize.

2018-09-25 03:31:30 UTC  

Okay, well then that's not the same as "striving for the greatest possible happiness for all"

2018-09-25 03:31:39 UTC  

There is a fine line, but it's there

2018-09-25 03:32:17 UTC  

"the greatest possible happiness for all" would include incorporating everyone, regardless of any innate factors

2018-09-25 03:32:19 UTC  

The logic that classical liberals used, was along the lines of, the poor should not be helped because it will extend their suffering to everyone else, right?

2018-09-25 03:32:29 UTC  

rather than just a portion of people

2018-09-25 03:33:08 UTC  

And what if one argues that doing so is a net negative?

2018-09-25 03:33:10 UTC  

That and also the belief the poor could help themselves. There wasn't any legal subjugation or discrimination against the poor among classical liberals

2018-09-25 03:33:24 UTC  

as in, it hurts more people than it helps

2018-09-25 03:33:26 UTC  

Not to mention, notions of charity

2018-09-25 03:34:00 UTC  

Right, but a laissez-faire attitude isn't equitable to legal discrimination

2018-09-25 03:36:18 UTC  

I've always believed, and it may be me projecting my past beliefs, that Leftist thought is tied to the inability to recognize that they aren't the only ones who believe in the "Let's make the world a better place!" song and dance.