this in particular is so fucking tiresome motherfuckers be all like "systems thinking!" until they have a polemic goal when suddenly they're unable to conceive of scenarios besides one guy trying to stand off a nation-state army with a rifle
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well, i read the thing. it doesn't address what i'm talking about, instead beating up a "guns to overthrow the tyrannical government" position, which urban legend has it enough right-wingers endorse to make it not technically a straw man
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its alternative solution of "you can have freedom as long as essentially everybody agrees what that consists of and demands it at the same time" is a delight. the US would also be guaranteed freedom by a legion of magical ponies with freedom powers, so let's wish for that too
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the US, being incapable of this, i guess isn't as deserving of freedom as South Korea, so sure, let's just put all our chips on "nothing bad will happen and in fact everything will get better if even the remote possibility of us causing harm when we're pushed too far is erased"
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"Freedom in a society happens when, and only when, that entire society demands freedom." so if you can't demand freedom as an entire society, you don't deserve freedom
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really dog? okay, mea maxima culpa about bridging that definitely extremely perceptible inferential gap between "cannot ever have" and "do not deserve"
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the important thing, though, is that it's morally invalid for the blind person to try to pursue seeing the sunset through technological intervention, since the only valid mode of seeing the sunset is being born with eyes that work
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