Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?"
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months agoWe 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 6 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 6 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sorry… who do you think determines morality if not the consensus of the majority? Is there a god who does it?
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Everyone has their own sens of morality, the way that the majority feels about something has nothing to do with the way that the individual feels about it. Otherwise anyone who holds an unpopular opinion or even the act of holding one would automatically make one immoral, and inversely having the same opinion as the majority would make one moral even if they are a nazi in 1939 Germany.