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> Why not pick up a gun to ensure all those three seats are empty throughout the train ride? This is such a ridiculous caricature and an example of why argumen
by lliamander 4y ago
> Why not pick up a gun to ensure all those three seats are empty throughout the train ride?
This is such a ridiculous caricature and an example of why argument from analogy is so fraught with problems.
I might argue that the more likely scenario in a socialist society (i.e. anti-private property) is that a man who paid for three seat tickets would be forced at gunpoint to hand those seats over to people who didn't buy any tickets.
- laserlight 4y ago“Gun” here is a metaphor for capital, which is the instrument of might and right. In capitalism, individuals rarely need guns, because the system has in place necessary measures for what an individual could achieve by resorting to a gun. > I might argue that the more likely scenario in a socialist society (i.e. anti-private property) is that a man who paid for three seat tickets would be forced at gunpoint to hand those seats over to people who didn't buy any tickets. Why would a society that has allowed freedom to purchase three tickets would allow others to violate that freedom? Anarchism is not disorder.