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What difference would it make? We treat poor and rich as equals... or should. Amputees are not treated any less than athletes. These questions impose artifical

What difference would it make? We treat poor and rich as equals... or should. Amputees are not treated any less than athletes. These questions impose artifical beliefs as plausible theorems

P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
One wonders if you think ramps for amputees are considered an artificial belief or not. The answers to these questions have real ramifications, treating them as artificial is how harm to real people happens.
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pessimizer 4y ago
> Amputees are not treated any less than athletes. I see you don't understand meritocracy. Amputees can physically do less than athletes, therefore they deserve worse food, worse housing, and worse medical care, unless they can offset this defect in some other way. It's almost blasphemous to do otherwise; if God has seen fit to punish them, your offsetting of that punishment shows a prideful disapproval of God's plan. God has made His judgment of the amputee clear, so it's actually your duty to reinforce that judgement. God has given us dominion over this world, and the responsibility to maintain it; we can do that better with athletes, rather than people who are missing limbs. Or secularly, we collectively maintain the world's wealth through our individual contributions. The mean athlete contributes more, the mean amputee contributes less, and what goes around, should come around. Workers, not shirkers! I like to think of it as the reverse golden rule. Accept unto yourself that which you would have done to others. If you're worth less, eat less.
- adamsmith143 4y ago
  What are you smoking. Someone's physical abilities have had little to do with their impact on the world for at least a century...
- oigursh 4y ago
  In this instance your handle is apt.
- preordained 4y ago
  This sounds like an astoundingly appealing philosophy to one who is towards the top of this meritocracy pecking order, and utterly repugnant to anyone downward. It's so self-serving in that regard, that the "conflict of interest" in those who benefit in extolling it as the order for all...well, it makes the whole thing highly questionable. Is it the best way because it's the best way, or because it's best for you? It's really hard to see anyone who is on the wrong end of this system arguing for it, so in the end they would have to be subjugated? That rarely (never?) works out (if it can be considered a good thing to work out at all...), so it's clear to me that a hard-liner meritocratic system is never really going to work.
- kwhitefoot 4y ago
  I'm not quite sure whether this is a genuinely held point of view or devil's advocacy.
- HardlyCurious 4y ago
- tsol 4y ago
  Let's give rewards equally to all; the builders, the creators, the criminals and the leeches. That is surely the best system of distribution. How cruel must you be to let another man have less than you? So we must take from those who labor and with a wisdom that they have not, re-distribute the fruit of society fairly to all. It is a unjust and wicked world, so let us take control and right the world's wrongs.

What difference would it make? We treat poor and rich as equals... or should. Amputees are not treated any less than athletes. These questions impose artifical beliefs as plausible theorems

P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago

One wonders if you think ramps for amputees are considered an artificial belief or not. The answers to these questions have real ramifications, treating them as artificial is how harm to real people happens.

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pessimizer 4y ago

> Amputees are not treated any less than athletes. I see you don't understand meritocracy. Amputees can physically do less than athletes, therefore they deserve worse food, worse housing, and worse medical care, unless they can offset this defect in some other way. It's almost blasphemous to do otherwise; if God has seen fit to punish them, your offsetting of that punishment shows a prideful disapproval of God's plan. God has made His judgment of the amputee clear, so it's actually your duty to reinforce that judgement. God has given us dominion over this world, and the responsibility to maintain it; we can do that better with athletes, rather than people who are missing limbs. Or secularly, we collectively maintain the world's wealth through our individual contributions. The mean athlete contributes more, the mean amputee contributes less, and what goes around, should come around. Workers, not shirkers! I like to think of it as the reverse golden rule. Accept unto yourself that which you would have done to others. If you're worth less, eat less.

adamsmith143 4y ago
What are you smoking. Someone's physical abilities have had little to do with their impact on the world for at least a century...
oigursh 4y ago
In this instance your handle is apt.
preordained 4y ago
This sounds like an astoundingly appealing philosophy to one who is towards the top of this meritocracy pecking order, and utterly repugnant to anyone downward. It's so self-serving in that regard, that the "conflict of interest" in those who benefit in extolling it as the order for all...well, it makes the whole thing highly questionable. Is it the best way because it's the best way, or because it's best for you? It's really hard to see anyone who is on the wrong end of this system arguing for it, so in the end they would have to be subjugated? That rarely (never?) works out (if it can be considered a good thing to work out at all...), so it's clear to me that a hard-liner meritocratic system is never really going to work.
kwhitefoot 4y ago
I'm not quite sure whether this is a genuinely held point of view or devil's advocacy.
HardlyCurious 4y ago
tsol 4y ago
Let's give rewards equally to all; the builders, the creators, the criminals and the leeches. That is surely the best system of distribution. How cruel must you be to let another man have less than you? So we must take from those who labor and with a wisdom that they have not, re-distribute the fruit of society fairly to all. It is a unjust and wicked world, so let us take control and right the world's wrongs.