This issue bothers me more than anything nowadays, so let's have debate.
So why should a person be FORCED to help someone else? If someone needs help, they can always ask for charity.
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Anonymous2010-01-12 20:05
The expression you were looking for was backpedaling. Your inappropriate accusation underlies your inability to appreciate this discourse. I have made several comments distinguishing the responsibility to care for members of society, from socialism/communism. You don't get this though, because you apparently believe that there are only two mutually exclusive ways to administer a societies resources. You constantly invoke your version of "Economics" when I dismissed it's relevance early on. You continually hinge many of your objections on an academic definition of wealth that's part of your economic fantasy that I characterized accurately when I said
"You divide to conquer. You divide society into the “government” and the “market” and attempt to use the government as a tool of the market, rather than the reverse, preferring the system that addresses our desires, because the greedy, obsessed with their own desires, are skilled at manipulating the desires of others, rather than that which represents our ideals, and use instruments(like currency) to further stratify the population"
The thread is little more than you yapping "that's not wealth, that's not wealth, you don't know anything about economics" and me trying to explain the many ways in which your entire understanding of economics, wealth, and society is fettered by what I also referred to as an "antiquated" ideology.
"cut down" my arguments?
"burned to the ground"
I'll say it again. EQUIVOCATION. Look it up. Your use of equivocation and deconstruction may look effective to the untrained mind, but it's never really touched my arguments.
As for your accusation that I support an altruistic morality: I find that hilarious. I'll admit my altruistic morality freely. What a monster I am.