Message from @Apotheosis

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2018-01-13 05:50:14 UTC  

Yes, we assume kids don't have autonomy for many decisions. Kids aren't adults.

2018-01-13 05:50:27 UTC  

right

2018-01-13 05:51:21 UTC  

This server should add some political subroles (Liberalist, Libertrain, Progressive, exc.).

2018-01-13 05:51:53 UTC  

If it did, I'd do as best to avoid them as much as I can.
Not that I'm centrist, I doubt it, I just don't want a label slapped on my head.

2018-01-13 05:52:36 UTC  

It's going to leave implications that might be wholly inaccurate.

2018-01-13 05:53:10 UTC  

Yea, unless you let people make their own subrole, well at least mitigate.

2018-01-13 05:55:39 UTC  

Alright how about this: we are still deciding as society what the best course of his life should be and enforcing it if we intervene here

2018-01-13 05:56:57 UTC  

here, we are deciding what this individual should want and should be

2018-01-13 05:57:19 UTC  

it just isn't allowed to be anything sexual since he's a child

2018-01-13 05:57:48 UTC  

but the reasoning for this doesn't have anything to do with violation of individual rights does it?

2018-01-13 05:59:06 UTC  

an outside force is deciding what his well-being should be... because he isn't capable of knowing the right decision?

2018-01-13 05:59:22 UTC  

Children should be left to wolves

2018-01-13 05:59:26 UTC  

would that not apply to people outside of just children, unconscious or disabled?

2018-01-13 05:59:45 UTC  

No cpr for anybody

2018-01-13 06:00:02 UTC  

Mentally incapacitated and uneducated about the relevant topic too.

2018-01-13 06:00:53 UTC  

e.g. women and kids that got lobotomized back when it was cool

2018-01-13 06:03:41 UTC  

It seems that sometimes a societal entity or member of an incapacitated or not-fully-matured individual must make a decision for them, but what is the basis of this moral decision?

2018-01-13 06:04:40 UTC  

what counts as "defense" for a child/incapable person?

2018-01-13 06:06:17 UTC  

The basis is maxisization of individial liberty, that means you make sure they regain their ability to chose if deprived and make sure most if not all choices are reserved when they regain their ability to chose for themself.

2018-01-13 06:06:34 UTC  

Or you leave them for dead

2018-01-13 06:08:19 UTC  

Surely this individual liberty can't come at the expense of that of others, right?

2018-01-13 06:08:41 UTC  

Yes

2018-01-13 06:10:31 UTC  

But also surely, people should be allowed to compete under some conception of a meritocracy. That would result in the meritorious triumphing over not meritorious, at their expense.

2018-01-13 06:10:43 UTC  

However that would be a valid expense, yes?

2018-01-13 06:11:34 UTC  

not everyone can have the "liberty" to be the best

2018-01-13 06:11:42 UTC  

Yes

2018-01-13 06:12:57 UTC  

but some conceptions of competition do not benefit the group, and it is only a tyranny of the strong over the weak by some definition

2018-01-13 06:13:49 UTC  

so then what we really care about is what moral system, what moral principles we should compete under, that benefit the group

2018-01-13 06:14:02 UTC  

did I use any sleight of hand there?

2018-01-13 06:14:29 UTC  

or is it that individual rights and benefits must be balanced with the good of the collective?

2018-01-13 06:14:53 UTC  

what defines that balance?

2018-01-13 06:15:45 UTC  

well, that would be what I suggest as the basis for morality: principles that promote survival and reproduction within the group, that promote power and stability for competition with other groups

2018-01-13 06:16:04 UTC  

and against nature

2018-01-13 06:19:06 UTC  

a balance completely toward individualism would dissolve the group and turn individuals against each other in destructive way

2018-01-13 06:22:04 UTC  

as for a balance skewed completely toward collectivism, it's a bit harder to show why that is not a good idea

2018-01-13 06:22:15 UTC  

I need to introduce a few more things

2018-01-13 06:23:25 UTC  

but the point is... morality is affected by evolutionary forces that act on the survival and reproduction of the group, not necessarily just the individuals

2018-01-13 06:24:08 UTC  

the same morality that we use to make our moral judgements, ostensibly in defense of individual rights, is grounded in a balanced individualist/collectivist morality

2018-01-13 06:24:46 UTC  

and you can call that "individualism" but really this is a misnomer

2018-01-13 06:25:19 UTC  

at least for the principles that allow for moral intervention of children/incapacitated etc.

2018-01-13 06:25:26 UTC  

Yes I want the person/s in power to share my morals. What is good for everyone is their individual rights. Why limit ur thinking of a princepels with in a gentic group. You say reproducion but that does not pass down belifs, insted think about converting people too ur ideaology as that, not reproduction spreads ideals. Which can contain ideals to protect those also in ur group.