Every time a marxist sneers at animal liberation or youth liberation, every time they dismiss out of hand the lumpen and try to turn everything back to the working class, I am so gratified and proud to have never had a marxist phase.
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Replying to @rechelon
One question, does saving someone an interference to their liberty? Or is not saving them when you can an interference in their liberty? Assuming they cannot (or there isn't enough time) for them to decide if they want your help.
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Replying to @Riyadhelalami @rechelon
Depends on if you're a deontologist or some other moralist, whether you think a person is "the same person" at every time in their life, and many other things I think. Most answers you get will be attempts to smuggle metaphysics into a perfectly good gambling opportunity though.
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Well I usually like to think that maximizing the freedoms of myself and others is the ultimate goal, so I would probably interfere if I saw you drowning. But I am still having some conflict if this was authoritative of me, if so would this be a justified authority. It is complex
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We're all enmeshed in the same causal web. There are no neutral actions. Just pick a goal and minmax for it if you're loss averse or have problems discerning individual cases for what they are.
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