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Two men are sitting in a room (me and you). Another man enters and tells us that this wand (he holds it up) is magic and can make anything in the world happen if you believe in it. He exits leaving the wand to us.
We both know this isn't true yet one of us pretends it is and picks up the wand to begin "correcting" all that is "wrong" in the world.
I sit there and simply refuse to play pretend with you. Your response? Not only do you get mad at me but you proceed to boss me around because the magic wand has that power...according to the rules of the pretend game.
Don't be surprised when the non-players don't play pretend.
You forgot that he would put a gun on your head and force you to play. And he would squeeze the trigger happily if you refuse.
Two men are sitting in a room (me and you). Another man enters and tells us that this wand (he holds it up) is magic and can make anything in the world happen if you believe in it. He exits leaving the wand to us.
We both know this isn't true yet one of us pretends it is and picks up the wand to begin "correcting" all that is "wrong" in the world.
I sit there and simply refuse to play pretend with you. Your response? Not only do you get mad at me but you proceed to boss me around because the magic wand has that power...according to the rules of the pretend game.
Don't be surprised when the non-players don't play pretend.
I've not stated anything that isn't true. I support people not playing. I would have liked to have seen everyone get a yellow vest for Christmas.
In both moral and political philosophy, the social contract is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.[1] Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the ruler (or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights.
It's been noted that Libertarians believe it's OK for the government to protect property rights. You are restricting my ability to expand my empire and using the government to do that.
In both moral and political philosophy, the social contract is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.[1] Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the ruler (or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights.
It's been noted that Libertarians believe it's OK for the government to protect property rights. You are restricting my ability to expand my empire and using the government to do that.
That's your magic wand.
And that's your pacifier to avoid the unpleasantness of realizing you force others to do things on your behalf. Because we all know what the actual word is when one forces another to act against their will don't we? But if we hold up the Emperors new pantyhose (Social contract) and demand by the power of Grayskull, that person or persons X do this act for the benefit of society it's not that word.
Since you can't or won't acknowledge the color red, or can't or won't hear frequencies above 20kHz. Your trotting out of your pop psych list of distortions is entirely useless don't you? It's an appeal to authority which is always a poor debate strategy, and is dependent on your perception being the correct perception, which I believe is on your list of distorted thinking is it not?
We all perceive things through our lenses of perception, the trick is to determine whose lens is less distorted from actual. Majority plays no part in that determination, because majority is most frequently wrong, fools seldom differing is the almost ubiquitous outcome, NOT, great minds thinking alike.
And that's your pacifier to avoid the unpleasantness of realizing you force others to do things on your behalf. Because we all know what the actual word is when one forces another to act against their will don't we? But if we hold up the Emperors new pantyhose (Social contract) and demand by the power of Grayskull, that person or persons X do this act for the benefit of society it's not that word.
I'd expect better arguments out of a moderator. Granted, that might be my mistake.
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