UNICEF Seeks $ 115,000,000 To Sustain Misery

[maskedmelon]

People who are happy are not miserable ^^ If you subscribe to liberalism/libertarianism, then people ought to be free to live as they choose even if that means being miserable. I see it as inhumane though, especially when the misery is at least in part a result of outside forces.

At the same time, allowing those people to proliferate is immoral because of the threat their proliferation represents to humanity both in diluting the mean and in chaos and destruction when they finally do lash out at the wretchedness of their circumstance.

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People who are happy are not miserable ^^ If you subscribe to liberalism/libertarianism, then people ought to be free to live as they choose even if that means being miserable. I see it as inhumane though, especially when the misery is at least in part a result of outside forces.

At the same time, allowing those people to proliferate is immoral because of the threat their proliferation represents to humanity both in diluting the mean and in chaos and destruction when they finally do lash out at the wretchedness of their circumstance.

Gotta love conditioned generalizations.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Ahldagor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gotta love conditioned generalizations.

I'm not suggesting all poor people are miserable. Pokesan took the discussion in that direction.

Tell me, Ald, are you happy when you've not eaten all day? How about for three days? A week? Not knowing when you will eat next?

Is it nice to impose this sort of condition in people who are unable to care for themselves because contributions do not always meet the demands of nature (famine, disease, etc)?


Or were you alluding to something else? Liberalism/libertarianism?

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not suggesting all poor people are miserable. Pokesan took the discussion in that direction.

Tell me, Ald, are you happy when you've not eaten all day? How about for three days? A week? Not knowing when you will eat next?

Is it nice to impose this sort of condition in people who are unable to care for themselves because contributions do not always meet the demands of nature (famine, disease, etc)?


Or were you alluding to something else? Liberalism/libertarianism?

I think you don't know what you're talking about which is cute.