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0 pointsCooCooCaCha1y ago0 comments

You’re right, I don’t like your comment. It always amazes me how heartless you libertarian types can be.

Food and a roof are basics, not a luxury. The fact that a significant number of people in this world don’t have those things speaks more to our failure to provide.

Do better.

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tasuki1y ago

I'm actually not a libertarian. I guess I'm your standard European socialist: I'm all good taxing (us) rich and providing for the poor.

It still is a choice whether one chooses to work, as evidenced by those who chose not to.

Edit: the "luxuries" was slightly tongue in cheek and perhaps didn't land well. Anyway, you're free to move to the wilderness, hunt/grow your own food, build your own shelter, and do without the socio-economic system altogether.

CooCooCaChaOP1y ago

You could have fooled me because that is the same immature definition of voluntary and choice that libertarians espouse.

Voluntary is not binary. If someone put a gun to your head and told you to eat shit you technically have a choice but it's not much of choice is it?

tasuki1y ago

> If someone put a gun to your head [...]

That would be a rather easy choice to make!

We aren't entitled to a roof over head and food etc, that's all I'm saying. We should be grateful when we happen to luck into circumstances (such as a job) that allow us to have roof/food. It's not something everyone has.

Saying we were involuntarily forced into having a job/roof/food feels very strange when compared with the people who weren't forced to have either of these three things.

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0 pointsCooCooCaCha1y ago0 comments

You’re right, I don’t like your comment. It always amazes me how heartless you libertarian types can be.

Food and a roof are basics, not a luxury. The fact that a significant number of people in this world don’t have those things speaks more to our failure to provide.

Do better.

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tasuki1y ago

I'm actually not a libertarian. I guess I'm your standard European socialist: I'm all good taxing (us) rich and providing for the poor.

It still is a choice whether one chooses to work, as evidenced by those who chose not to.

CooCooCaChaOP1y ago

You could have fooled me because that is the same immature definition of voluntary and choice that libertarians espouse.

Voluntary is not binary. If someone put a gun to your head and told you to eat shit you technically have a choice but it's not much of choice is it?

tasuki1y ago

> If someone put a gun to your head [...]

That would be a rather easy choice to make!

Saying we were involuntarily forced into having a job/roof/food feels very strange when compared with the people who weren't forced to have either of these three things.

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