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Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by marginalia_nu on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:54AM (#31861018)
> To continue the proliferation of humanity and life in general throughout the universe. To oppose entropy.

Right, but I'm a human being, I am not humanity itself. Humanity is just an idea, it has no agency or conscience. It cannot suffer, it does not want.

As a human being, my primary responsibility is toward myself, to make myself happy, and to arrange the world according to the principles that resonate with my soul.

Toiling to make other people happy at my own expense doesn't make me happy. Even if that was the way it worked, surely the best action would be to line up to work at an Amazon warehouse and bask in opportunity to contribute to the incandescence of Jeff Bezos' prosperity.

> If that is not appealing to you, you should probably off yourself right now.

I don't really see how that follows. I'll die regardless whether it's by my own hands right now or at the hands of external circumstance some years later.

Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by imgabe on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:58AM (#31861068)
> to arrange the world according to the principles that resonate with my soul.

What are the principles that resonate with your soul?

Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by marginalia_nu on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:11AM (#31861206)
I can't list them, but I can try to explain through examples.

There are certain vile things that when you see them or even think about them you shudder to the very foundation. It may be murder, rape, kidnapping, grievous torture, helplessness, and so forth. Nobody needs to be told this is not the way things should be.

On the other hand, there are other things, when you see them, they bring you a sense that the world is as it should be. It may be things that are awesome, beautiful, or sublime. It may be good craftsmanship, self-sufficiency, human flourishing. It may be small things or large things.

The former are such things I do not want to exist in the world, and the latter are such things I want to exist in the world.

Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by imgabe on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:28AM (#31861464)
> On the other hand, there are other things, when you see them, they bring you a sense that the world is as it should be. It may be things that are awesome, beautiful, or sublime. It may be good craftsmanship, self-sufficiency, human flourishing. It may be small things or large things.

Sounds good to me. Why not exercise whatever talents you have to encourage and promote such things?

Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by harry8 on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:56AM (#31861033)
This is a terrible comment, unworthy of being said here. Maybe consider hitting the edit button and express the thought in a less vile way?

If you disagree with me you should definitely continue to decide to live.

Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by imgabe on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:59AM (#31861076)
If you are opposed to life, why continue to live?
Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by marginalia_nu on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:12AM (#31861212)
If you truly are opposed to life, surely the best action is to stay alive so you can oppose it better than you can if you are dead. If you are dead, you can do nothing to oppose it.
Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by imgabe on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:19AM (#31861308)
So you’re commenting here to advocate on behalf of mass murderers?
Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by shuger on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:50AM (#31860976)
Entropy cannot be opposed. That's fundamental law of physics.
Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by fny on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:53AM (#31861011)
Sure it can, I decrease entropy locally and reallocate it somewhere else. Space is huge and it will take a long time to approach the limit.
Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by Ensorceled on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:55AM (#31861025)
You literally opposed entropy by writing this comment.
Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by jacquesm on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:55AM (#31861024)
In the long term. But in the short term there are plenty of loopholes, according to those laws of physics.
Re:A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017) by dsr_ on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:57AM (#31861050)
Entropy wins universally. Locally, lots of processes are anti-entropic. Look at a leaf.