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his essays

>>14940036

>from nothing
>proceeds to list somethings

>do the most good to humans
>pragmatism

>>11594484
>the abolition of physical education
should be fucking tripled
fat fuck

>>11531648
>translation

>>11465526
>What if you can't swim?
Then you clearly weren't capable of truly helping him.
>Also not having everything is not the equivalent of fucking drowning and you know it.
I'm not arguing for state coercion. I'm arguing for the moral obligations trusted upon you by yourself and society. The only coercing you should suffer is the one of isolation and depression for being a philistine.
And you're leaping pretty far from "helping someone starving" to "subsidize X person's entire life cause they once almost died from starvation or sickness, and give everyone slightly poorer than you".
Maybe you think I'm someone else in the thread, I'm not >>11465158

>>11465580
That's why I added "by their own definitions".
The amount of trust within a society is intrinsically correlated with prosperity. Virtue is universal (when dealing with someone face to face, repeatedly); honesty, everyone admires honesty; industriousness, everyone admires that; not being rude to you, unanimous; attractiveness = pretty much universal; not getting angry at you all the time; creativity . . . What I'm trying to imply is that human nature is objective/universal/not relative or "subjective". What differs is tiny variations of the same themes.

Nobody admires and aspires to be like a heroin addict, we only admire those with universally liked personality traits (no matter how lacking they might be,).

>>11457856
>The communists promised to do good things, took power, and ended up doing bad things.
>The communists promised to do good things
>The communists promised good things
>the things the communists promised to do where good things
Anyone not a proletariat is a nonhuman, worthless, the essence of all evil.

>>11385645