I actually agree that running for 100% equality would likely result in 0% freedom.
For my money that is an extreme illustration of “you can’t satisfy all values simultaneously” , not of “left bad”.
Christians absolute egalitarianism is view I have never heard articulated before. It seems to be the mirror image of anarcho-capitalism, the philosophy that guns for 100% freedom.
To me, it’s symmetric.
To you there is apparently a “side” that is in contact with reality, and a side that isn’t.
Yes, there are a lot of things that would go wrong, to the average utility function, with absolute egalitarianism . Ditto for absolute libertarianism. But you never mention that.
It’s an open question whether a given extremist, of any stripe, is someone who has (1) a one-sided utility function, (2) who wrongly thinks that an average, mixed UF can be satisfied by extreme policies.
As such, you don’t get to assume that (2) is true of anyone in this discussion.
I actually agree that running for 100% equality would likely result in 0% freedom.
It wouldn’t result in much equality either. (Unless you mean equality in the sense that everyone is equally dead, which is a possible if extreme outcome.)
Ditto for absolute libertarianism. But you never mention that.
I also never called absolute anarcho-capitalism (I assume that’s what you mean by “absolute libertarianism”) as a desirable end-state.
It’s an open question whether a given extremist, of any stripe, is someone who has (1) a one-sided utility function, (2) who wrongly thinks that an average, mixed UF can be satisfied by extreme policies.
The problem is that as I pointed out the way these people pursue their one-sided goal won’t even maximize the one-sided utility function.
Edit: Speaking of freedom and equality don’t you also want a term for prosperity in there somewhere?
Christians absolute egalitarianism is view I have never heard articulated before. It seems to be the mirror image of anarcho-capitalism, the philosophy that guns for 100% freedom.
If you want to have it articulated in a bit more detail Zeitgeist Appendum can give you an impression. With 5 million youtube it there are quite a few people on the internet who profess to follow that ideology.
According to it we need a central computer who tells everyone what work to do. People will do what the computer tells them because their education teaches them the value of following what the computer tells them, so perfectly that everybody just does what’s in the “public interest” and follows the directions of the central scientific computer program.
Because there won’t be money anymore, nothing will stop the digging of intercontinental tunnels for transportation needs so that you don’t need airplanes.
I have meet multiple people who believe that framework. Fortunately people outside of the political process where they won’t do much harm. Unfortunately a bunch of them are smart, so intelligence doesn’t seem to protect against it. One of them ranks quite well in debating tournaments.
Wow, there so many things wrong with this proposal that I’ll just mention the one that disgusts me on a visceral level. One effect of this scheme (if it could somehow be made to work) is that there is a certain organ that consumes nearly one quarter of the body’s energy that is now completely vestigial.
I actually agree that running for 100% equality would likely result in 0% freedom.
For my money that is an extreme illustration of “you can’t satisfy all values simultaneously” , not of “left bad”.
Christians absolute egalitarianism is view I have never heard articulated before. It seems to be the mirror image of anarcho-capitalism, the philosophy that guns for 100% freedom.
To me, it’s symmetric.
To you there is apparently a “side” that is in contact with reality, and a side that isn’t.
Yes, there are a lot of things that would go wrong, to the average utility function, with absolute egalitarianism . Ditto for absolute libertarianism. But you never mention that.
It’s an open question whether a given extremist, of any stripe, is someone who has (1) a one-sided utility function, (2) who wrongly thinks that an average, mixed UF can be satisfied by extreme policies.
As such, you don’t get to assume that (2) is true of anyone in this discussion.
It wouldn’t result in much equality either. (Unless you mean equality in the sense that everyone is equally dead, which is a possible if extreme outcome.)
I also never called absolute anarcho-capitalism (I assume that’s what you mean by “absolute libertarianism”) as a desirable end-state.
The problem is that as I pointed out the way these people pursue their one-sided goal won’t even maximize the one-sided utility function.
Edit: Speaking of freedom and equality don’t you also want a term for prosperity in there somewhere?
Or wellbeing, since dollars aren’t utilons.
I don’t define prosperity in terms of dollars.
If you want to have it articulated in a bit more detail Zeitgeist Appendum can give you an impression. With 5 million youtube it there are quite a few people on the internet who profess to follow that ideology.
According to it we need a central computer who tells everyone what work to do. People will do what the computer tells them because their education teaches them the value of following what the computer tells them, so perfectly that everybody just does what’s in the “public interest” and follows the directions of the central scientific computer program.
Because there won’t be money anymore, nothing will stop the digging of intercontinental tunnels for transportation needs so that you don’t need airplanes.
I have meet multiple people who believe that framework. Fortunately people outside of the political process where they won’t do much harm. Unfortunately a bunch of them are smart, so intelligence doesn’t seem to protect against it. One of them ranks quite well in debating tournaments.
Wow, there so many things wrong with this proposal that I’ll just mention the one that disgusts me on a visceral level. One effect of this scheme (if it could somehow be made to work) is that there is a certain organ that consumes nearly one quarter of the body’s energy that is now completely vestigial.
I can describe ideas without them being mine. In this case we are speaking about ideas in the party program of the SPD.