Message from @Aaronnn123

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2020-03-06 22:50:08 UTC  

its like saying "all that breaths should be killed"
"Why"
"Because if you breath you should be killed"

2020-03-06 22:50:13 UTC  

that doesn't address the question in any way lol

2020-03-06 22:52:16 UTC  

Well do you think it's right for someone to come into your house and tell you what to do if what you're doing doesn't affect anyone

2020-03-06 22:52:34 UTC  

And when the state interfers in people's lives, it always does more bad than good

2020-03-06 22:52:39 UTC  

Look at the war on drugs

2020-03-06 22:52:44 UTC  

Or the war in the middle east

2020-03-06 22:52:52 UTC  

That's a false analogy fallacy. I wouldn't be in favor of that however i would not extrapolate that principle onto the state

2020-03-06 22:53:21 UTC  

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2020-03-06 22:53:31 UTC  

How's it a false analogy

2020-03-06 22:53:57 UTC  

Its a false analogy because it asks me an instance with which i disagree with, and then attempts at extrapolating the principle of that instance into a GENERAL thing which oughta apply to everything

2020-03-06 22:54:03 UTC  

That's the definition of false analogy fallacy

2020-03-06 22:55:18 UTC  

Fine, then do you have any arguments to suggest that authoritarianism is better than libertarianism

2020-03-06 22:58:02 UTC  

Well asking whether authoritarianism in and of itself is better than libertarianism is like asking whether a pickaxe is better than a shovel, they're both tools, it depends on how you use them and the context of the society in which you're asking that

My varient of authoritarianism is superior to libertarianism because the principles i adhere to exclude libertarianism as an option. I don't believe in individualism, I reject materialism upon which libertarianism entirely relies on, and its individualistic tenets

2020-03-06 22:58:39 UTC  

I think it's best to see libertarianism as an ideal while authoritarianism works better for the current state of things.

2020-03-06 22:58:52 UTC  

I disagree

2020-03-06 22:59:47 UTC  

You're assuming that once we get rid of the current situation, and we then switch to libertarianism since the ideas we previously enforced becomes a "norm", people will remain in adherence to those ideas. Which isn't really the case, since people will try to subvert the masses without a state to oversight the situation

2020-03-06 23:01:19 UTC  

I get what you mean

2020-03-06 23:01:30 UTC  

but assuming those subversive elements didn't exist

2020-03-06 23:01:39 UTC  

asuming we are all ethical then it can work

2020-03-06 23:01:47 UTC  

the thing is that something like that is hard to achieve

2020-03-06 23:01:50 UTC  

Where has that happened

This hasn't held true in rojava, Zapatista Chiapas, exarcheia or cheran. I accept to an extent that happened in Somalia, however that seems to be more of an exception

2020-03-06 23:02:17 UTC  

What is "that" here?

2020-03-06 23:02:54 UTC  

that's it's hard to achieve a utopia where everybody is ethical

2020-03-06 23:03:07 UTC  

I don't think it ever happened

2020-03-06 23:03:13 UTC  

@Ronin well without the state to serve as an oversight, people will have a choice to be unethical, and then even worse exert their immorality onto others by subverting them

2020-03-06 23:03:33 UTC  

maybe it can happen in smart homgenous societies like in parts of East Asia.
Like if you were to legalize a purge in say South Korea I doubt much would happen.

2020-03-06 23:03:33 UTC  

Well no one will ever alwats be ethical

2020-03-06 23:04:04 UTC  

it's basicly assuming that greedy people will not be greedy and recognize that you need to sacrifice some things for the greater good.

2020-03-06 23:04:16 UTC  

Well that's obviously false Aron

2020-03-06 23:04:31 UTC  

Saints are saints because they have remained ethical thru out their entire life

2020-03-06 23:04:35 UTC  

For example

2020-03-06 23:05:36 UTC  

However, last century, governments killed 1/15 people from democide and war, even more from shitty economic policy and thing like Chernobyl, I think we'd be better off if governance was run by the community instead of a large state

2020-03-06 23:05:49 UTC  

Are you saying saints never do anything wrong?

2020-03-06 23:06:10 UTC  

They wouldn't be saints if they occassionally indulged in sin lol

2020-03-06 23:06:25 UTC  

That's what makes them saints, full rejection of sin and full dedication to Christ

2020-03-06 23:06:48 UTC  

Well that's a subjective interpretation of ethics

2020-03-06 23:07:04 UTC  

Yeah but that's irrelevant

2020-03-06 23:07:05 UTC  

But anyway, I'm interested in Materialism and why you think materialistic individualism is a valid philosophy. Or do you just believe in methodological individualism?

2020-03-06 23:07:30 UTC  

I don't believe in individualism, why do you think that?

2020-03-06 23:07:45 UTC  

I said communities should make decisions instead of centralised states

2020-03-06 23:07:58 UTC  

Well you're a libertarian, that's why I assumed it