Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?"
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months agoIt’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 5 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 5 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If everyone has their own morality, I guess your feelings about the morality of taxes are not relevant to anyone else.
Thanks for proving my point that no one cares about what libertarians want.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Your point was that if majority says something is good it is good and if majority says something is bad it is bad, which is not the case. There are plenty of examples where majority said that something is good and it was bad (genocides, oppression of minorities etc.) and when majority said something was bad and it was not (“witches”, science etc.).
My point was that you can’t use “majority thinks so” as a definition of what’s moral and what’s not.
I think taxation is evil, you don’t, we can talk about it and try to come to an agreement or agree to disagree, but our feeling on the matter don’t change the the facts that taxes are taking away sovereignty from an individual, that they are abused by politicians for the benefit of their families and friends, that they give unfair advantage to large corporations and stifle competition, that at the end of the day taxes are payed by workers and consumers and their biggest beneficiaries are banks and corporations…
You are free to think that everything I listed is good, but i’d appreciate if you told me why you think so.