Strange7 comments on Not Taking Over the World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 29 March 2011 12:15:14PM *  1 point [-]

If you give each individual whatever they want you’ve just destroyed every variety of collectivism or traditionalism on the planet ,

Unless, of course, anyone actually wants to participate in such systems, in which case you have (for commonly-accepted values of 'want' and 'everyone') allowed them to do so. Someone who'd rather stand in the People's Turnip-Requisitioning Queue for six hours than have unlimited free candy is free to do so, and someone who'd rather watch everyone else do so can have a private world with millions of functionally-indistinguishable simulacra. Someone who demands that other real people participate, whether they want to or not, and can't find enough quasi-volunteers, is wallowing so deep in their own hypocrisy that nothing within the realm of logic could be satisfactory.