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how many ACists in the world? how many ACists in the world?

09-22-2018 , 03:00 AM
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Originally Posted by pyatnitski
I do sort of enjoy this thread, that animal rights is the root of all RADICAL LEFTIST evil is at least a new one on me.
The animal rights movement is, unfortunately for humanity, only one of the many clear examples of what radical leftism is about (= decreasing human welfare through totalitarian control of human behaviour justified by arbitrary morality crusades).
09-22-2018 , 03:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
The animal rights movement is, unfortunately for humanity, only one of the many clear examples of what radical leftism is about (= decreasing human welfare through totalitarian control of human behaviour justified by arbitrary morality crusades).
your ideal society is a beehive or an anthill wtf are you even talking about
09-22-2018 , 03:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
The humanistic view is that everything that exists can be exploited for humanity benefit and no other consideration whatsoever should be made with everything that is not a human being.

Humans at the center of everything, human beings the only thing having intrinsic value, and everything else that exists having value (being worth preserving and so on) only and exclusively because of the value it generates for human beings.

This is not economic, this is a value scale.

This is not alienation , and this is not "internalizing the solution". This is having a belief that the only source of value in the universe are human beings (a few people generalize this to "intelligent beings").

So any form of life on earth that is not human (or maybe dolphin or some monkeys, depending on the intelligence thing) is worth as much as a rock on a planet 50 light years from earth (which is utterly 0), UNLESS it provides net value for humanity.

This, if you are humanist.

If you expouse other philosophies which stipulate an intrinsic value on life itself well, that's not "not being alienated", that's having a different value scale.

And we can properly call all value scales that expand intrisic value outside human beings as being literally ANTI-HUMAN, in the sense that giving intrinsic value to things that are not human ends up with leading to choice that don't maximize human quality of life, explicitly sacrificing human values for other living being values.

Which, in my view, is profoundly immoral in an intimate sense and deeply disturbing and disgusting.

Now in an humanistic point of view you can preserve species. But only if measurements add up, cost-benefit analyses, with NO number whatsoever coming from something "intrinsic" in the specie itself, all numbers only and always being number of human value.

That process can't be perfect and giving too much credit to some extimate of value coming from that process would be alienating.

But it is not alienating at all, it is actually the only way to live fully with a humane philosophy, to disgregard completly the idea that things that are not human beings have intrinsic value.

mother of god
09-22-2018 , 03:53 AM
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Originally Posted by 6ix
your ideal society is a beehive or an anthill wtf are you even talking about
wtf? no it's not.
09-22-2018 , 04:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
wtf? no it's not.
Well of course you don't recognize it as such. If you did you wouldn't believe what you do.

But, none of guys see that you don't actually value human life. Like, at all.
09-22-2018 , 04:24 AM
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Originally Posted by 6ix
Well of course you don't recognize it as such. If you did you wouldn't believe what you do.

But, none of guys see that you don't actually value human life. Like, at all.
People who want to use violence against people with a different value scale are the problem, and you are among them. Those want an anthill society, with recalcitrant ants being forced into submission or eliminated.
09-22-2018 , 04:24 AM
OK that was the grunchiest grunch I ever grunched...

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Originally Posted by Luciom
So yes, no regulation should exist to stop animal torturers from torturing their own animals...

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For the "market for torture animal", you should ask people who think animals have intrinsic value. I don't , so for me a tortured animal out of my sight is worth the same as a living animal i don't interact with or an animal that never existed in the first place, which is 0.

If you give intrinsic value to animal life i can see absolutists (similar to catholics right now) that think that whatever life is worth living more than death, and others considering some lifes worse than never having been lived, and among those a life of torture.

But given i don't think animals have intrinsic right what you are asking me is similar to "would the rock be better off if made into cement, or sand, or left alone in the valley?" the question is meaningless.
09-22-2018 , 04:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
People who want to use violence against people with a different value scale are the problem, and you are among them. Those want an anthill society, with recalcitrant ants being forced into submission or eliminated.
No, see, I get the exact particulars, and the source and catalyst of your confusion; why you have it exactly backwards. You don't have to reiterate.
09-22-2018 , 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
For you and people like you, because you arbitrarily decide that "being able to feel pain" is what makes something worth of intrinsic value.

If you don't see that "wanting to regulate rape" has NOTHING TO DO WITH PAIN, because we ban rape also in combination with drugs that make you senseless (AND RIGHTLY SO of course) i don't know how i can help you with that.

Animal pain = rape is a new addiction to radical left absurdities for my collection.
2 points:

1. You don't believe or are unaware that psychological, psychic pain is a thing.

2. Bees and ants don't have therapists and psychiatrists.
09-22-2018 , 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by 6ix
2 points:

1. You don't believe or are unaware that psychological, psychic pain is a thing.

2. Bees and ants don't have therapists and psychiatrists.
I am well aware that psychological pain exists, is what i feel right now reading your posts.
09-22-2018 , 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
No it's the opposite. Is like saying that people who are against the war on drugs like it when people make use of heroine.
I enjoy a good nit but 'like it when people use heroin' is close enough to 'in favour of people using heroin'.

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That's exactly the point. I don't like people ruining their life with heroine, but i think the war on drugs is terrible.
Of course and people understand that even if they disagree. We also all understand why people disagree about hate speech laws even when they agree that hate speech is bad.
09-22-2018 , 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by chezlaw
I enjoy a good nit but 'like it when people use heroin' is close enough to 'in favour of people using heroin'.


Of course and people understand that even if they disagree. We also all understand why people disagree about hate speech laws even when they agree that hate speech is bad.
Ok! so why don't you see it's the same about me and animal torture? arguing against a ban is simply not the same as being in favour of something.

And saying "but if we don't ban it some people will do it" is in no way an argument that can justify the ban, by itself.
09-22-2018 , 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
wtf? no it's not.
LOL, another ACist who can dissect the smallest of grievances against current society but is completely ****ing blind to what an ACist society would be like for all but the most privileged.
09-22-2018 , 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
Ok! so why don't you see it's the same about me and animal torture? arguing against a ban is simply not the same as being in favour of something.
I did. You're a tough person to agree with about something

You're wrong because of you're actual argument, not because of the cheap rhetoric.
09-22-2018 , 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
People who want to use violence against people with a different value scale are the problem...
So, you are against (1) evictions, (2) repossessions for unpaid interest, and (3) suppression of sit down strikes... correct?

If not, you are a "people who wants to use violence against people with a different value scale", and by your own pronouncement, you "are the problem".

Just that simple. What say you...

09-22-2018 , 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
LOL, another ACist who can dissect the smallest of grievances against current society but is completely ****ing blind to what an ACist society would be like for all but the most privileged.
In no reply in any thread i ever said i am an acist, and i repeatedly said i am in favour of some regulation and some taxes, included to fund a basic income so stop lying
09-22-2018 , 03:33 PM
09-22-2018 , 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
In no reply in any thread i ever said i am an acist, and i repeatedly said i am in favour of some regulation and some taxes, included to fund a basic income so stop lying
If it walks talks and squawks like a duck....

Or

But I haven’t heard you come out against it
09-22-2018 , 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
If it walks talks and squawks like a duck....

Or

But I haven’t heard you come out against it
This is literally the first line i wrote in this thread (post 143)

as an answer to libertarian extremists, just switching from lake pollution to air pollution would suffice to show their positions is untenable.


So you either can't read, or you lie.
09-22-2018 , 09:18 PM
You assume I read way more of your posts than I actually do. You'll forgive me if misrepresent your position, the only people I've seen actively campaign for moving poors to poor farms and allowing people to torture animals for money have been ACists. What is your opinion on roof roads?
09-23-2018 , 04:51 AM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
You assume I read way more of your posts than I actually do. You'll forgive me if misrepresent your position, the only people I've seen actively campaign for moving poors to poor farms and allowing people to torture animals for money have been ACists. What is your opinion on roof roads?
I never heard the expression "roof road" before. Googling it, it doesn't seem to be a special phrase to specifically describe some phenomenon.

So what do you mean with "roof roads"?

Btw i don't campaign to "move poors to poor farms". I campaign for people to MASSIVELY increase their quality of life, WITH PUBLIC MONEY, going to live in places where the cost of life is lower when it makes sense FOR THEM, after they get money to solve absolute poverty.

They wouldn't be POOR with an UBI, in an absolute sense. Only in the monstrous radical left "relative poverty" definition.
09-23-2018 , 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Luciom
I never heard the expression "roof road" before. Googling it, it doesn't seem to be a special phrase to specifically describe some phenomenon.

So what do you mean with "roof roads"?
It's the only way for people to get to work when the company that owns the roads puts a use tax on the road to your house equal to your take home pay.

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Btw i don't campaign to "move poors to poor farms".
narrator: he does

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I campaign for people to MASSIVELY increase their quality of life, WITH PUBLIC MONEY, going to live in places where the cost of life is lower when it makes sense FOR THEM, after they get money to solve absolute poverty.
And the people who can't move to your poor houses, what are we to do with them?

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They wouldn't be POOR with an UBI, in an absolute sense. Only in the monstrous radical left "relative poverty" definition.
A UBI won't make someone not poor. A UBI would remove them from poverty allowing them to focus on something more productive than whether they should buy food or medicine today.
09-23-2018 , 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
It's the only way for people to get to work when the company that owns the roads puts a use tax on the road to your house equal to your take home pay.
I am strongly in favour of most roads in most cases being public.
09-23-2018 , 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
And the people who can't move to your poor houses, what are we to do with them?
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Define "can't move", and explain their situation, then we will see if it's up to the public to help them or not.
09-23-2018 , 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by kerowo
A UBI won't make someone not poor. A UBI would remove them from poverty allowing them to focus on something more productive than whether they should buy food or medicine today.
If you have an higher, guaranteed by the state, income thatn the median bulgarian, indonesian and so on and you still get defined poor then the person using that word is a liar.

If the median bulgarian can not only survive but live a decent life, then an american can do the same with 10-12k$ per year. If he doesn't manage to that's entirely his/her fault. Median bulgarian personal income at PPP is less than 6k per year.

Remember that this doesn't include healthcare. So it would be basic income + healthcare, like the proposals going on in europe, canada and so on.

But it's never enough for you radical leftists. Never. Enough.

Having 100% of the resident population permanently out of poverty is NOT ENOUGH. Because maybe some of them have to move.

You know what? people like you are the reason i don't fight as much as i could in favor of basic income or other welfare of that kind. Because as long as people like you exist no concession can be made to your side. It's too dangerous to ever allow you any possible political victory. You have to disappear completly before decent people can put togheter decent solutions to real problems.

Until them i think you deserve trump and people like him. Enjoy that, knowing fully well they exist only because you generated them, disallowing pratictal and useful centrism in your country.

      
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