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You could frame the entire project of building a political system as just solving this problem without extra side effects. If you want the right to be left alo
by alphazard 1y ago
You could frame the entire project of building a political system as just solving this problem without extra side effects.
If you want the right to be left alone, you have to concentrate power, so that people who don't leave other people alone can be effectively punished. That concentrated power attracts the kind of people who don't like leaving other people alone. To these power-seekers, people left alone are an opportunity cost, they could be forced to work towards some goal set by the power-seekers.
- NoTeslaThrow 1y agoI mean you could, but we're inherently dependent on each other. I'm not sure I see the value of building a society around personal liberty. It wouldn't make much of a society, would it?
- alphazard 1y agoSounds like you don't want to leave people alone.
- NoTeslaThrow 1y agoI'm quite the introvert. I just am flummoxed why you would build around something so much less substantial than equitable distribution of resources, which necessarily implies our bothering each other to enforce. If you want to be left alone above all else, you can always turn into ted kaczynski. But reaping the benefits of society comes with costs. one of them is accepting annoying neighbors and other social contracts that might not specifically cater to your desires.