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The world doesn't exist for anyone's personal comfort, nor should it. This is the argument of luddites, nobility, and the lazy. The slave metaphor makes no se
by shaftoe 10y ago
The world doesn't exist for anyone's personal comfort, nor should it. This is the argument of luddites, nobility, and the lazy.
The slave metaphor makes no sense: slaves have a master who cares for his investment. Free people have none and must care for and provide for themselves. To assume they cannot is degrading.
- fsloth 10y ago"The world doesn't exist for anyone's personal comfort, nor should it. " The world does not care if one is comfortable or not. We humans, on the other hand, do. Given our level of economic output the question is ethical and political, not ontological.