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Last time I checked, freedom of movement is an essential human rights. It's all good as long as it doesn't happen to you right? You see, when you allow someone
by netwanderer2 8y ago
Last time I checked, freedom of movement is an essential human rights. It's all good as long as it doesn't happen to you right? You see, when you allow someone to dictate every detail of how you should live your life, that means you're being oppressed. We are all different individuals with different needs. Does the person dictating your life have the same needs as you? NO! Someone has set up a template based on their own ideas and completely ignored your own personal preferences. You have been reduced to nothing more than a bot or a walking dead at this point.
One thing I agree is that if this is what China want to do with their country then let them have a go at it. It's their country, people have different values and beliefs in China that citizens from the West will never understand. We can disagree with them, but it is not right for us to interfere or try changing the way how their society functions. Only the future will tell what's best for all of us.
- turtlecloud 8y agoWell.... you may view it as oppression, but they prob view it as the gov taking care of them. 2 sides to the issue. Collectivists will love it. Individualists will hate it.
- netwanderer2 8y agoI agree completely. As you mentioned, it's collectivism vs. individualism, people from the West with different values and beliefs system would not be able to understand what drives and motivates the average Chinese citizens, and vice versa. We can sit here and point our fingers all day, but does it really matter if the people who live there are happy? The two systems have vastly different principles, it's unreasonable and impossible to conform them into one. Nothing in life is black and white as we tend to label them. There are always pros and cons in everything. As we approach the age of AI, this chapter could even be considered as a new experiment in the history of humankind. None of us can accurately predict the future so it might actually be beneficial to witness the outcome from such experiment. Good or bad, there will be something here for everyone to learn.
- mercer 8y agoI consider myself rather collectivist, but I don't love it. If the entity 'taking care' consists, ultimately, of a small group of elites, this really just boils down to a few individualists controlling everyone else. That's far from collectivist! I'm open to the idea that this is not currently the case, but it wouldn't take much for it to be so. That's why, as a collectivist, I am inclined to be more on the 'hate' than 'love' side.