CDR: Insurance: My Last Post

[sunder]

Your conclusion is at odds with your views.

Based one 1, it is surprising that you're not advocating humanicide.
Based on 2, it is surprising that you're not advocating being Amish
Based on 3, it is surprising that you don't support dictatorships.

Not surprisingly, views 1,2,3 put into political power provide nothing
less than oppression.

Nathan Saper wrote:

> My views are irreconcilable with those of the libertarians on this
> list.  Here's the way I view the world:
> 
>        1) Life has no inherent value.  Our being here is random, and
>        there is no purpose to our lives.
> 
>        2) "Human progress" is bullshit.  We are no further along as a
>        species now than we were in Plato's time.  Basically, we're
>        going nowhere fast.
> 
>        3) People have no essential "rights."  Rights don't exist.
>        This is a theme often found in the work of many modern
>        philosophers, such as Foucault.
> 
>        5) Taking all three premises above, the only way I can find to
>        evaluate what is right and what is wrong is "do what causes the
>        least pain."  I guess this is basically pragmatism.  For
>        example, if raising taxes to 95% would feed everyone in the
>        world (I'm just speaking hypothetically), then I would advocate
>        this, because this would lead to less pain in the world.  (And
>        I don't consider some people having to sell their Ferraris
>        "pain." ;-)  Someone here said that each time taxes are raised,
>        we lose freedom.  So what?  First of all, what is "freedom"?
>        Second of all, what is so great about it that it should be
>        evaluated before everything else?

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