Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl...
by pron on Monday October 28, 2013 @05:50AM
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> Nature is unfair.
A naturalistic fallacy[1] if I ever saw one. Nature is grossly unfair. It is also extremely cruel. Of course, it's neither of those things because these are anthropic traits – nature just is. Modeling your behavior on "nature" is senseless. Maybe we should all behave like electrons, absorb or emit energy occasionally, and move about more or less randomly[2].
> Stop the egalitarian bullshit.
Whether you subscribe to humanistic politics or not, calling it "bullshit" is ridiculous. We are not trying to change or defy nature, or even romanticize it (like I said, nature is). The question everyone is trying to propose answers to is how should human beings behave – as individuals and as a society. The answers have no intrinsic truth to them. They are a result of each one's peculiar sentiment.
[2]: Actually, there is a hypothesis that all electrons are exactly the same - in fact, they are the same electron - so, according to that we actually share our electrons with everyone and everything else; maybe nature is egalitarian after all.
A naturalistic fallacy[1] if I ever saw one. Nature is grossly unfair. It is also extremely cruel. Of course, it's neither of those things because these are anthropic traits – nature just is. Modeling your behavior on "nature" is senseless. Maybe we should all behave like electrons, absorb or emit energy occasionally, and move about more or less randomly[2].
> Stop the egalitarian bullshit.
Whether you subscribe to humanistic politics or not, calling it "bullshit" is ridiculous. We are not trying to change or defy nature, or even romanticize it (like I said, nature is). The question everyone is trying to propose answers to is how should human beings behave – as individuals and as a society. The answers have no intrinsic truth to them. They are a result of each one's peculiar sentiment.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
[2]: Actually, there is a hypothesis that all electrons are exactly the same - in fact, they are the same electron - so, according to that we actually share our electrons with everyone and everything else; maybe nature is egalitarian after all.