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It's not up to you to decide what to do with other people's money. Feel free to donate all your money to the poor who deserve better; if you will use threat of
by jokethrowaway 5y ago
It's not up to you to decide what to do with other people's money.
Feel free to donate all your money to the poor who deserve better; if you will use threat of violence to get someone else money (no matter the cause) I'll call you immoral.
- moshmosh 5y agoThe threat of violence enforced the system that let them get the money (with a democratic government's name printed on it, mind you) to begin with. Was violence immoral when it enforced a system that shaped wages and the returns of capital in such-and-such way?
- tryonenow 5y agoThere's a massive difference between using threat of violence to ensure that people are able to secure the legitimately owned fruits of their labor, and forcibly taking their labor outputs and redistributing them among those who are not contributing to the same degree or at all.
- chii 5y agoviolence only enforces contracts, which are formal promises. Violence doesn't enforce market rates for wages, demand and supply and other market forces.
- moshmosh 5y agoIs this in your ideal system? Because that is really far from being true.
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- turbinerneiter 5y agoI'm not deciding what to do with other peoples money and I am not threatening anyone with violence. We decide these things together through the democratic process. I know it is hard for people like you, who reject democracy and any kind of power anyone could have over them, it must feel terrible to not be able to escape a system you disagree with. But I also think that on the spectrum of systems we had, it is not really fair so scream "taxation is theft" and "social security is immoral" at democracy, if you consider what we had before.