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in this world how does the government decide whats the best choice is? one of the reasons we ended up with 'people should decide for themselves unless it harms
by convolvatron 7y ago
in this world how does the government decide whats the best choice is? one of the reasons we ended up with 'people should decide for themselves unless it harms someone else' is that we dont have any other basis to evaluate options. the church, the monarchy, and the market have been 3 other go-to deciders. maybe a 1970s style AI with flashing lights?
- homonculus1 7y agoYou've hit on the center of the sheer arrogance of these tech bros and authoritarians. Freedom isn't a failure because people make suboptimal decisions. Freedom was NEVER SUPPOSED to lead to people making their best decisions. It's a safeguard against something inevitably far worse, which is having to obey the type of people all up and down this thread who want to impose their ideas about how much sugar I should eat and how often I'm permitted to drink. I'd literally prefer to give myself diabetes and die of alcoholism than live 90 healthy years under the command of someone else's thumb. I don't care how benevolent you perceive yourself, I don't care smart you think you are, I don't care how subtly you think you can meddle and shape my actions to your own values without me noticing. YOU HAVE NOT SOLVED LIFE. STOP INTERFERING WITH PEOPLE.
- CyanBird 7y agoI gotta say those folks on Brave New World seemed quite happy tbqh
- PeterStuer 7y agoUnfortunately your reality impacts mine. I am not trying to be benevolent, just trying to limit the devastating impacts your supposed freedom has on my planet.
- dang 7y agoCould you please not post ideological rants here? and also, please don't use uppercase for emphasis. Both of these things are covered by the site guidelines. If you'd review them and follow them, we'd be grateful. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html