Thread by @wanyeburkett

Listening to Bryan Caplan debate socialism. His opponent trots out the old, "If a robber points a gun at you and demands your wallet, are you free to refuse? Similarly if you need to eat, are you truly free to turn down a job? In both cases you're coerced." This is word games.

The robber is the proximate cause of the coercion. The guy offering the job has nothing to do with you, nothing to do with your material conditions. The robber coerces you, but the employer is unrelated to the coercion, such that any exists. You are coerced by reality.

This is why I say that socialism is at its root anger and resentment about being asked to participate in one's own survival. Sure, you're coerced -- by your biology, by entropy, by reality.

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The socialist is angry and demands the head of the person responsible. But there is no person responsible. Your biology is responsible. The universe is responsible.

The socialist is way deep down in their gut angry that the word is as it is. They are at war with the universe.

Socialists are at war with reality. They resent reality. They are appalled that things are as they are, that they're made of matter that decays and that must constantly be serviced. They are incensed that there is no endpoint at which humanity can let off the gas and coast.

You need to participate in your own survival. Today, tomorrow, ten years from now, everyday, for decades, indefinitely, until you finally die.

There is no end. It doesn't end. The socialist demands an end, but there is no end. Only death.

I'm not a brain expert, but I think it's probably bad for one's psychology to be at perpetual war with reality. Do modern socialists seem like a healthy and happy bunch to you? Maybe that's why.