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I agree, a lot of communists and socialists seem to be driven by envy and spite, and not out of any higher moral feelings.
My favourite example of this goes like this:
Socialist: Taxes are so great, we help everyone!
Me: Ok, but there's nothing stopping you from paying taxes if you like, and me, as a libertarian, to not pay taxes. We would both be happy. You helping people, and me, helping people through my business and the services I
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Socialist: No! It's unfair! If I pay taxes, you have to pay taxes too!
Me: But didn't you just say that you do it to help people? Would you, just because it is unfair, rather _not_ help people? Doesn't that mean that for you, it is _more important_ that people have equal outcomes, than actually helping them?
Socialist: You capitalist pig, you know what I mean!
Me: I do not know what you mean.
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Socialist: But if everyone doesn't pay, it's not fair!
Me: Yes, but if I don't pay, and you don't pay, it means you actually do not care about helping people. If that would be the most important goal, wouldn't you pay anyway?
Socialist: But it's unfair and unrealistic.
and on and on it goes.
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_Ideally_ I'd have socialists "re-educated" and become productive members in the market place.
Killing them right away is a waste of potential creative resources.
What struck me last time I read 1984 was how much I had missed in it. It’s much much more than the images of brutal repression we tend to remember.
I was struck by how familiar the Party’s mind control methodology now seems – with the emphasis on invented, irrational narrative and willing suspension of critical faculties.
What struck me last time I read 1984 was how much I had missed in it. It’s much much more than the images of brutal repression we tend to remember.
I was struck by how familiar the Party’s mind control methodology now seems – with the emphasis on invented, irrational narrative and willing suspension of critical faculties.
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Yes, that's the common argument, and somehow it just keep failing, again and again and again.
The problem is that it is impossible to kill, due to mans infinite stupidity.
You can explain from a scientific and financial and psychological point of view why communism will always fail, yet, the only reply is "that was not real communism".