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Originally posted by Flame Of Liberty@Sep 18 2005, 11:56 AM
No. I don’t think it is so hard to understand. There are other “elements” or characteristics to a society important to me. Those elements don’t depend solely on economic system though so in my opinion it is not an argument for or against any particular system.
For example, I think that people have a right to do/sell/produce/whatever drugs if they want to. But that doesn’t mean I am thinking “gee it would be great if I and my kids were drug dealers.” While I accept that people should be able to do drugs if they want to, it doesn’t mean I want to be around them. So to use the drugs example: my “dream society I want to live in” (a stretch, but I will bite) is one where people CAN do drugs freely, but CHOOSE NOT TO do drugs.
Makes sense?
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Yup. You're establishing the 'dream' by examining what is probable (reality), and then wishing for the opposite (fantasy).
I think many people wish that all drugs were legal, and no one did any of them. Obviously that wouldn't work. I'd do drugs in your back yard, and (because I'm a little wealthier, and can afford better security) I think I'll set up shop there with my friends... maybe now it will be 'my' backyard. Private Property and all that. What was yours will be mine, and there's nothing you can do about it except wave a 'natural law' book in my face. What happens if I take your book?
You're setting up anarchy, nothing less. Anarchy is the opposite of order, and thus far, you've established collective order (the only kind seen on any scale in the past... 2-3 centuries?) as completely illegitimate, while legitimizing anarcho-fantasy.
Why don't you just buckle and announce that your ideology is pure philosophy, and should be examined as such? You'd get a lot farther if you said 'i believe in reduced levels of government' than 'government is a slave-driving thief who is ruining my life.'