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by hellcow
4745 days ago
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It isn't really the "Freedom Party" when they demand this: "For our rejection of authority and profit-seeking when it does not serve the common good of all people, we have been called 'pirates'." How can I pursue my own interests—how can I have freedom—if I have to serve some nebulous "common good," just as if I lived in a communist state? The philosophy you're looking for is libertarianism. |
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I think the assumption here is simply the average human being, who is happy when in company with other happy human beings, not the alienated, necrophile collector of things and symbols who "lately" have become so numerous they actually think just wearing shirts and shoes while running countries or companies makes them a fully fledged fucking person, haha.
If you honestly cannot think of anything that profits you without hurting others, then wtf are your interests? How can others have freedom, whatever it is, when your interest, whatever it is, is profiting off them, instead of doing work that profits off, say, chaos and energy by making it useful at least to you, if not others as well? How can you yourself even have any meaningful development as a person that way?
If you plant a fruit tree in your garden, and only you get to eat the fruit, and it makes you happy, then we're all better off for you being happier, and those who create ideas and tools that last longer and reach farther than just their belly are considered cooler still. But the purely parasitic BS has to go, and since it tends to make people lazy and ignorant, there is fuck all they will be able to do about it once the kindling actually catches. Is that okay for you, can we move on now?
Why do some people understand that murder is not okay, but don't apply to the same into, say, deceiving others into self-harm from which they profit? I think it's privilege. It's mighty easy to have endless discussions about what a gun actually is when you don't have one pointed at you.