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Re:Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure by dcre on Friday March 07, 2025 @01:43PM (#43292935)
You have a very simplistic understanding of what is voluntary and what is involuntary, and taking such an understanding as the basis of your moral and political thinking can only lead to utter confusion.
Re:Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure by richardanaya on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:11PM (#43293262)
What's hard for you to understand about the word "voluntary?"
Re:Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure by immibis on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:12PM (#43294730)
A man points a gun at me. He says: Give me the money, or die. I make the voluntary decision to give him the money.
Re:Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure by sprucevoid on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:48PM (#43293748)
how the word "voluntary" is actually used by people is complex in interesting ways. People report (degrees and shades of) involuntariness and coercion in lots of different situations. For example "I hate this shitty job but I don't have a choice". So as a matter of language use there's lots of different kinds of involuntariness that doesn't cleanly map onto any libertarian-ish view. At which point libertarians tend to make the move of proposing their own, much more narrow definition of "voluntary". Which implicitly embeds normative assumptions that would need to be argued for, which libertarians fail to do.