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Pretty much everything is self serving using that definition. Clean up trash in a park? Self serving. Donate money to the poor? Self serving.

• bigfishrunning 18d ago
  I think you misunderstand me -- perspective matters. If you have 12 cookies, and I have 2 cookies, and i say "it would be more fair if we each had 7 cookies", then i pretty transparently just want you to give me 5 cookies. "Clean up trash" and "Donate money to the poor" are not as unevenly beneficial. Also "Donate money to the poor" is a far cry from "Seize money and give that to the poor".
  • 1659447091 17d ago
    > and i say "it would be more fair if we each had 7 cookies", then i pretty transparently just want you to give me 5 cookies. But under the context of "government has no concept of property and assigns resources to everyone" it is not you (or any single person) that decides that, it's the contextual Communist government saying and doing that. Just because it benefits random governed person does not make it directly self serving. The nuance is, in this version of Communism, the Communism itself it is not self serving it trys to equalize -- Libertarianism, in this context, enforces self serving ideals
    • bigfishrunning 17d ago
      > But under the context of "government has no concept of property and assigns resources to everyone" it is not you (or any single person) that decides that, Under every version of Communism, it's "the government" that decides that, and those government officials seem to be much better dressed then everyone else.