Americans Willing To Raise Taxes To Save Social Scurity

[Boris Johnson]

[The Dharma Bum]

Where do you keep coming up with the "need to raise kids from scratch", or "humans have to be a blank slate for it to work" stuff? They just have to be regular humans just as they exist now, only living in a system that is well designed and utilitarian rather than ill-conceived and inherently unfair.

I do think anarcho-communism will be a much more stable society, or I wouldn't suggest the improvements it implies. In comparison the current form of society is highly unstable. Why on earth would you think a system that takes advantage of most of society for the benefit of a few while leaving most people without basic care is stable while one that is fair and takes care of everyone's needs is unstable?

That doesn't make any sense to me.

[Boris Johnson]

[The Dharma Bum]

I never said anything about eliminating vice.

However a better social system would most assuredly greatly alleviate the social situations that often develop into criminality and/or mental illness. The correlation between social conditions and criminality and mental illness are well established. Religion and the other folk beliefs that inform our culture are simply primeval ways to to relieve the cognitive dissonance that results from being forced to exist in squalid conditions.

There are better ways to do the same thing.

[Boris Johnson]

[Boris Johnson]

That term does imply intention though, which i'm not sure if your claiming all other systems have. Your use of the word 'folk' implies not.

Either way, intentional misleading which you have talked about, or simply unintentionally badly organised. Even if its granted that you can in a new system eliminate want, lets also assume the transition is possible and won't break down into some form of tyranny. Both of which I think there is emperical warrant to speak again. There remain further problems to do with the plausibility of the rational end to disagreement.

But lets for now, try and deal with the question, given what is proposed, the assumptions I agree to entertain, how is that system presented. Stable, what prevents the reamergence in terms of self-creating functional assemblies of hierachies, oligarchies and all the rest. What prevents the 'gang' from destroying it all.

[The Dharma Bum]

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