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Originally Posted by A_C_Slater
It's not their money, it belongs to society. [... diatribe ...]
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Originally Posted by leavesofliberty
Who is this society person? I want to see society's birth certificate.
lets back up.
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society - A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture.
that kind of society obviously exists, but the way A_C_Slater frames it, as an entity that we owe our lot to, doesn't exist. society doesn't keep anything. society is the end result of order through interpersonal relations. society is a lattuce.
treating society as a single agent that someone owes success to and blames failure upon is wholistic idiocy. there is no single agency that can be pointed to that is said to act on behalf of the interrelations of millions to which we "owe" something to.
what happens all too often is that people somehow confuses the whims of society with the actions of the state, which is what A_C_Slater is doing, mistakenly, again and again.