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23 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 11 January 2012 12:55PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 January 2012 07:22:35AM *  4 points [-]

They don't have to agree with our value system for this to be a utopia.

Actually they do, in order for us to consider the benefits of living like that to outweighs the costs, it has to match some of our values. There is still some overlap between a Medieval peasant and the modern world, this is why we can imagine a fraction of them preferring this existence.

Comment author: DanielLC 12 January 2012 06:42:55PM -2 points [-]

it has to match some of our values.

Our world does. Our values do not. I would consider a world full of happy paperclip maximizers a utopia. Their values in no way match my own.