But is the free tuberculosis treatment in India because kidney selling was banned? Or because countries which get to a certain development level try to give at least some basic free healthcare to their people? In a counterfactual where India had legalised kidney selling for the last twenty years, do you think they would not have free treatment for tuberculosis?
I mean a few years ago, I could have felt like writing a similar post to what you wrote. But somewhere along the line I realized that others may have personal experiences that their heuristics such as “exploitation is bad” work out well, and that my disagreement may simply be because I lack those experiences.
This is particularly critical to me because I am autistic and introverted so I have had fairly few social experiences and until recently have not paid so much attention to the precise details of those experiences. Maybe if you are allistic and extraverted, this stuff is less of a problem for you.
But in such a case, I think I would be more interested in you drawing on experiences from your personal life and giving example of cases there where exploitation has been good/would have been good. I assume they’d be more representative and that you’d know more details about them than about big political topics which affect many people.
I’m also introverted and nerdy bordering on autistic, so I can’t make a claim that my experiences are different from yours in that sense. I think some of my perspective comes from growing up in developing countries and knowing what real poverty looks like, even though I haven’t experienced it myself. And some of my perspective is that I value my own personal autonomy very highly, so I oppose people who want to take autonomy away from others, and that feeling seems to be stronger than it is for most people.
I guess one possible example would be that the government started providing free tuberculosis treatment in India?
But is the free tuberculosis treatment in India because kidney selling was banned? Or because countries which get to a certain development level try to give at least some basic free healthcare to their people? In a counterfactual where India had legalised kidney selling for the last twenty years, do you think they would not have free treatment for tuberculosis?
I don’t know.
I mean a few years ago, I could have felt like writing a similar post to what you wrote. But somewhere along the line I realized that others may have personal experiences that their heuristics such as “exploitation is bad” work out well, and that my disagreement may simply be because I lack those experiences.
This is particularly critical to me because I am autistic and introverted so I have had fairly few social experiences and until recently have not paid so much attention to the precise details of those experiences. Maybe if you are allistic and extraverted, this stuff is less of a problem for you.
But in such a case, I think I would be more interested in you drawing on experiences from your personal life and giving example of cases there where exploitation has been good/would have been good. I assume they’d be more representative and that you’d know more details about them than about big political topics which affect many people.
I’m also introverted and nerdy bordering on autistic, so I can’t make a claim that my experiences are different from yours in that sense. I think some of my perspective comes from growing up in developing countries and knowing what real poverty looks like, even though I haven’t experienced it myself. And some of my perspective is that I value my own personal autonomy very highly, so I oppose people who want to take autonomy away from others, and that feeling seems to be stronger than it is for most people.