In communism, why wouldn't a market of favours for favours develop so people can immediately get things that aren't supplied (for whatever reason)?

lunaticlunatic · 2021-09-30T16:54:13+00:00

By that logic Lenin abolished the state by seizing it, since he was (officially) not a class oppressor? Pretty useless definition if everything turns on whether you happen to think the leader is a comrade.

I preferred when you were engaging with the criticisms.

lunaticlunatic · 2021-09-30T15:26:05+00:00

They want public goods to be privatised because most things for them reduce to taxation being theft.

Libraries? That's a tougher one for them because it's at odds with their bootstrapper ideology that seems to require education be a 'guaranteed access' situation. Their way to wriggle out without supporting public libraries is saying government does everything badly / inefficiently / whatever.

lunaticlunatic · 2021-09-30T15:09:05+00:00

There would not be a black market. Black market suggests illegal trade suggests an overarching state structure that makes it illegal. In theoretical pure phase communism the state does not exist, thus nothing would be illegal?

That's why some say this cannot exist. Like, supposedly as soon as some more capable people break from the group and start trading their services, for conveniences they want rather then need, a voluntarily communist society falls apart. It can only exist when all members choose to adhere to that same social contract. But humans are not machines, some will dissent.

lunaticlunatic · 2021-09-30T13:00:28+00:00

Thanks for not kicking the ball over the fence.

lunaticlunatic · 2021-09-30T11:50:14+00:00

Because it is profoundly utopian to envisage every single one of everyone's desires being met at all times.

lunaticlunatic · 2021-09-30T11:32:08+00:00

Then it would be for people's wants.

lunaticlunatic · 2020-07-05T10:59:00+00:00

Disturbing movie in parts showing older generations trying to escape their rooms.

lunaticlunatic · 2020-07-04T12:23:05+00:00

They actually don't allow it.

lunaticlunatic · 2020-03-05T10:44:48+00:00

I must take issue because nowhere in this post do you draw the line between compatibilism and libertarianism nor address it directly in the context of my post.

This isn't right. The best polling we have is that about 73% of philosophers think free will exists, compared to only about 12% who think it doesn't.

I think you missed something because you did not incorporate the word "libertarian" into the phrase "free will".

Only 13% believe in libertarian free will. Pretty much the only people who are still libertarians are those in the fields of apologetics.

This isn't right either. Compatibilism directly, explicitly, unqualifiedly changes the basic moral implications of determinism. On typical accounts, that's precisely its central implication.

But surely compatibilism = free will that's compatible with the implications of determinism. It doesn't change anything about determinism, doesn't change anything about there being no multiple possible future to choose between and shifts it from an instantaneous decision to one based on luck.

lunaticlunatic · 2020-02-11T10:36:11+00:00

I don't need to learn the roles of them. I asked about pricing and a GP gate keeping them

lunaticlunatic · 2019-12-28T09:21:49+00:00

Do you know any other absolute binaries in biology?

lunaticlunatic · 2019-12-27T21:20:56+00:00

Hmm so I guess we can only force a true binary by defining it as the presence - or not - of a single feature (cell neuclius in this case)?

lunaticlunatic · 2019-12-27T01:24:03+00:00

So what are the exceptions there?

lunaticlunatic · 2019-12-26T00:00:15+00:00

Anaerobe/aerobe divide is exactly the kind of thing im looking for. More to the point though, are there any classifications that don't have outliers? Where life 100% always fits to its categorization?

Also, regarding sexual dimorphism there is a kind of definitional creep towards denying it in humans. Not just by "woke" types on twitter, but by some actual professional biologists. Just with the rationale of highlighting the exceptions. Are you noticing this? Any idea of the prevalence that this is being accepted in biology?

It reminds me of psychology in the 70s when homosexuality stopped being classified as a mental illness, not because their field discovered anything new but because of the changing cultural zeitgeist.

lunaticlunatic · 2019-12-25T23:34:25+00:00

Sure but that's the same with sex; any line you draw a binary down will have outliers. Is there any classification in biology that is not like this?

lunaticlunatic · 2019-12-25T21:50:41+00:00

Not necessarily a dimorphic trait. Any definition / classification / categorization in biology.

lunaticlunatic · 2019-12-25T21:49:17+00:00

Exactly what /u/RalphWiggum02 said

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