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Pick Your Society...

Name: John 2005-12-05 17:34

To all of those that have bitched about every single point I've made in any given thread, I pose this idea to you.

I'm not asking what type of society you would necessarily like to live in yourself, because that's a rather double-edged answer for a lot of you I'd imagine, being that this board is mainly leftist.

So... Build your ideal society, as honestly as possible. What type of people would you want in your society? What type of government? What style of economy? Would you want productive members in your society, or people that simply live off of the efforts of others? Would you want the government to control every aspect of peoples' lives, or do you actually value freedom? Free enterprise, the biggest eliminator of poverty in the history of mankind? Or fascism... I'm sure most of you liberals are already bitching that my questions are too black and white. So you pick your grays. Make your ideal society.

Have at it... I hope it's not too much to ask for some actual honest responses here.

Name: Anonymous 2005-12-11 19:34

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as technology amplifies, we will have a greater impact on the face of the earth and thus on our own welfare.  whether a unified culture/government is the BEST thing for the human condition itself is overridden by two points: humans will move forward intellectually if they are able.  A primitave utopia cannot be made permanent; gaps will always widen, and we will always crawl right back up to our previous state if capable.  That said, your clinging to citizenship as the moral end-all be-all is both silly and untenable.  You can DEFINITELY make a current, practical argument for it, but not a very inspiring ultimate moral or personal argument.  The abstract moral obligation is that-um-they're all human, and caught arbitrarily under various governments.

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