I won't reply to everything as we're getting into several conversation at the same time, beers on me if we ever meet in real life :D
I think we found the the source of divergence!
I don't think there should be any "rights", simply because having a right implies someone else will have to uphold it, which means it's unclear how much we're paying for it. Given a right is something that affects me, I want to be free to lose it, if I so desire.
The reason I don't like redistributive policies is because they non consensual.
I don't believe in free will (I don't think we are more than very clever machines), and maybe that's why I put a higher value on choice than on guaranteeing life.
At the same time, I think that voluntarily donations are more than enough to cover for those in needs.
There are so many people I talk to who are genuinely happy to pay taxes and there are many people who are not happy to pay taxes (in my case, mainly not to pay for an inefficient and warmongering model) who are happy to donate money in other causes.
So here I am, dreaming of a truly voluntarily society.
> I don't think there should be any "rights", simply because having a right implies someone else will have to uphold it, which means it's unclear how much we're paying for it. Given a right is something that affects me, I want to be free to lose it, if I so desire.
Your goal, as I understand it, is never to force anyone to do anything they don't want to do. Is that right? If so, it must be affirmative only - if I want to kill you, but you do not want me to kill you, then I don't get to kill you because I can't kill you if you don't want me to.
If that's a correct understanding, here's what I would like you to answer:
> I don't believe in free will (I don't think we are more than very clever machines), and maybe that's why I put a higher value on choice than on guaranteeing life.
What does it mean to have free will? "The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion?" That's the definition I'm familiar with.
If we have no free will, what's the point of choice? What does it matter, if we are machines, whether we can choose anything? Why can't I do what I "want" to you, given that the concept of "want" implies, deterministically, that I must desire it and therefore must do it?
That is, if I am going to kill you, that is because I must and always will. It isn't up to me, because nothing is. So what is the point of a rule trying that tries to stop me?
I think we found the the source of divergence!
I don't think there should be any "rights", simply because having a right implies someone else will have to uphold it, which means it's unclear how much we're paying for it. Given a right is something that affects me, I want to be free to lose it, if I so desire.
The reason I don't like redistributive policies is because they non consensual.
I don't believe in free will (I don't think we are more than very clever machines), and maybe that's why I put a higher value on choice than on guaranteeing life.
At the same time, I think that voluntarily donations are more than enough to cover for those in needs. There are so many people I talk to who are genuinely happy to pay taxes and there are many people who are not happy to pay taxes (in my case, mainly not to pay for an inefficient and warmongering model) who are happy to donate money in other causes.
So here I am, dreaming of a truly voluntarily society.