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[–] pyre 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm using communism as a bit of a catch-all term. the specifics are not my concern so long as the people hold the power.

and i disagree with your statement there. human nature is whatever we do with it. there's nothing natural about capitalism.

[–] FlyingSquid -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I didn't say anything about capitalism being natural. I said the final stage, anarcho-syndicalism, is probably unachievable. And no, human nature is not whatever we do with it. You will not just make things like jealousy, violent tendencies, the need to be controlled, and people fearing those different from them magically disappear. There will be people like that regardless of how you wish to remake the world unless you find a way to genetically engineer it all out of us. Because all of those things go back to our primate roots.

[–] pyre 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i didn't mean to imply you said capitalism is natural. i meant there's nothing natural about it yet the entire world revolves around it and has been for quite a while. if you put a system in place human nature is irrelevant. murder is "natural". we have laws against it. anarchism shouldn't be just total chaos, it just removes unnecessary hierarchies.

things like jealousy and violence are usually linked to economic and social hardship, and in a fair economic and free social system it should either go away or be the result of psychological problems which should have remedies in an anarchist system as well.

[–] NoMadMan 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you educate away violent mental illness?

[–] NoMadMan 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To quote you: "You will not just make things like jealousy, violent tendencies, the need to be controlled, and people fearing those different from them magically disappear."

Please point to the words 'violent mental illness' in your original post. Now take your yellow highlighter pen and color it on your screen. Actually, use a Sharpie - what the hell. Maybe next time you'll see it and remember not to speak out of turn.

If you mean to say that 'violent tendencies' is necessarily equivalent to 'violent mental illness', I would counter that they are two different things. I would say that people in the armed forces have violent tendencies. Police officers have violent tendencies. But violent mental illness is a completely different thing. Violent mental illness implies that the violence is not a rational response to the situation at hand.

So, sorry I took away your little 'Gotcha!" moment.

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, well you can counter it but that is still what I meant to say.

And I didn't do any sort of gotcha comment. That's not something I do. I resent the suggestion. If you're going to just make uncivil accusations, we can stop this right now.

[–] NoMadMan 1 points 1 month ago

Dude, it's your ball. Take it and go if you're upset.