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buybuydandavis comments on How should negative externalities be handled? (Warning: politics) - Less Wrong Discussion

-5 Post author: nigerweiss 08 May 2013 09:40PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 09 May 2013 03:13:32AM 5 points [-]

Your mention of wanting to "preclude blackmail, theft, and slavery" implies that you would like to see cooperative production between genuine equals, not relations of dominance or exploitation.

It really doesn't imply that in the least.

Being opposed to "blackmail, theft, and slavery" does not imply that you think that we're all "genuine equals", nor that you'd have any particular wish for that state, nor that even if you had such a wish, it would inform your political opinions in this world where people are decidedly unequal in talents, ethics, drive, and execution.