Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?"
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months agoIm arguing that it’s counterproductive to try to extract good out of something fundamentally evil and prone to abuse no matter how good your intentions are and that it’s a good idea to replace it with something fundamentally good even if it’s not perfect.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There is nothing fundamentally evil about requiring every citizen paying their fair share to make a nation run smoothly.
More importantly though, it’s what most people want.
…yahoo.com/poll-86-voters-believe-paying-21013438…
Sorry, people don’t want a libertarian tax-free world. Your dream is not going to happen.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
We can argue whether taxation is a necessary evil or not but if you can’t see evil in forcefully taking away any sovereignty from an individual, financial sovereignty included I think further discussion is futile and the best we can do is agree to disagree.
As for the poll you linked, or any other poll that doesn’t ask something along the lines of “do you think we should change our public funding scheme to (description)” is not a valid measure of support in this case (the way the question is phrased I might even say yes to it) and certainly not a valid measure of what’s good or evil. Not too long ago majority of people thought it’s ok to enslave other people because they looked different or castrate them because they loved different or lock them up for having a certain plant, the list goes on…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You still have financial sovereignty even though you pay taxes. No one is stopping you from buying things. You’re being silly.
And, again, nobody wants what libertarians are selling. There’s a reason why they almost never win elections.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
It’s not rape, he only put in <50% of the shaft. You’re not paralyzed, you still have full control over your left arm and leg. You’re not a slave, you can do what you want after you are done working the fields. It’s not theft they only took half your money.
And, again, opinion of the majority has no effect on morality of the action.