Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 1 year ago, 3 minutes later[^][v]#1,340,911
Like Buddhism, communism, capitalism, Christianity, Islam, democracy, I don’t 100% agree with anything, but there are bits and pieces I think are valid. Nazism is completely irredeemably evil, and I have zero desire to live in a free for all libertarian utopia. If some people want to live in a country where "everything that doesn’t hurt someone else is legal" good for you, but I do not want to live in that country and I shouldn’t have to.
Anonymous A (OP) triple-posted this 1 year ago, 7 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,340,914
The purpose of law isn’t punishment. Laws that define crimes and their punishments exist, obviously. But forming a structured and organized society with a hierarchy of roles is necessary in order to have a functional state. A society with no government would never advance beyond some basic hunter gatherer tribal communities. Capitalism might work, but capitalism is impossible without government. Currency isn’t real, in order to get people to use currency, you have to have a government which regulates the supply of money. The point of life isn’t freedom. Freedom by itself is completely useless. Freedom when you have poor living standards is meaningless. It’s not possible to be free and powerless at the same time. But it is impossible for everyone to have the same amount of power.
Anonymous A (OP) quadruple-posted this 1 year ago, 6 minutes later, 17 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,340,915
Really, direct democracy is an ideal where in theory everyone would have equal power over decisions which affect everyone. Except, direct democracy isn’t very effective on any meaningful scale because at the end of the day, even if you have rules and laws and norms and votes, not everyone is going to agree on everything, and someone has to call the shots. Real life isn’t a perfect ideal. So we have representative democracy. But the value of representative democracy isn’t that you have any real statistically significant control over who gets elected or what policies your elected leaders enact, it’s mostly just that you feel that you do. Trump or Biden or whoever don’t care at all about how you individually feel. But the democratic process is good because it creates a feeling of legitimacy regardless of what the government actually does in the end.