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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My political/economic philosophy priors: 1. No rule about political/economic systems is completely accurate or universal 2. In general, emergent phenomenon from low-level agents is better than top-down rules 3. Culture has huge impact, and often determines the success of a system
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
re: 1; political philosophies have a flaw somewhere. e.g., I'm libertarianish, but libertarianism philosophy is imperfect; philosophies are built on assumptions around things like 'rights' or 'freedom' or 'safety', which are arbitrary and socially flexible.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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re: 2; emergent phenomenon leads to better stability and a more complex and vibrant being; see what systems arise naturally out of watching people pursue what they need, and will often be way more nuanced and detailed in the right ways than planned laws can be.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
re: 3; debating if communism/anarchy/capitalism is best leaves out the incredible importance of the culture of the people in this system. The system and the culture work in tandem as one being; you can't separate them. A system might thrive with one culture but fail with another.
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Chris Meyer
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Once it's a philosophy few pay much attention to what it really means ("The word is not the thing.") You observed that cultures an important part of the ecology in which a meme thrives; but only one: what's the proper relationship between population density and firearm access?
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@q_eqed
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I treat philosophies like impossible ideals, showing us direction to where are moving as societies. Bigger government - less freedom. What’s freedom ? Libertarianism teaching us ideals.