tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2223763220958371697..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Should We Maximize Everyone's Happiness?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50330637375896567452014-01-11T19:31:31.998-08:002014-01-11T19:31:31.998-08:00n.n:
Agreed.
Tipn.n:<br /><br />Agreed.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55772002905773094662014-01-11T11:17:02.463-08:002014-01-11T11:17:02.463-08:00A beachfront property in Hawaii (next to the presi...A beachfront property in Hawaii (next to the president from Chicago), and to all a genie that will grant every wish.<br /><br />They can print wealth without immediate consequences, but they cannot print tangible goods and services. The terms and circumstances of reality will not be denied.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-15384729690357711892014-01-10T13:21:01.479-08:002014-01-10T13:21:01.479-08:00And it boils down to a lie.And it boils down to a lie.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23615870798384114802014-01-10T05:28:13.829-08:002014-01-10T05:28:13.829-08:00Ares Olympus: brilliant, brilliant comment. All of...Ares Olympus: brilliant, brilliant comment. All of it. Yes, it comes down to free will, and free will demands responsibility. Our world is so awash in subsidy without concomitant responsibility we see widespread social breakdown, particularly in geographies and demographics where the subsidies have been directed. The "War on Poverty" has consequently yielded the casualties of responsibility and community. And yes, prostitution still thrives in such areas. Do we surrender? Do we continue to fight? There's power in surrendering to God, to our own fallen nature. We think we can create heaven on earth. That's the true height of arrogance, and our results show this failure.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-84988495463302908172014-01-09T16:22:33.190-08:002014-01-09T16:22:33.190-08:00A person professing to love strangers as much as t...<br />A person professing to love strangers as much as their own family and friends, doesn't really love anybody.<br /><br />Kathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34906707454780499142014-01-09T15:50:46.266-08:002014-01-09T15:50:46.266-08:00I understand Joshua Greene’s idealism, and I recog...I understand Joshua Greene’s idealism, and I recognize it arises from a recognition in fear that the suffering of people invisible to us ultimately can cause us harm and how to proactively face that predicament.<br /><br />Maximizing everyone's happiness is an economist's phrase, and its easy to dismiss as meaningless because people want so many different things.<br /><br />I think a key idea that we need is to recognize "The world doesn't mean us good", AND "This is necessary and good."<br /><br />There's endless cases, but recently looking at the Feminists agenda, which comes down to a DEMAND that "Women must be safe." which all "Good men" will agree easily, since men want women to feel safe too, but as soon as you question the MEANS of safety which requires the world to be contrained, and women's choices to have no contraint, and no responsibility, its clear something is wrong, even while the initial ideal was sound.<br /><br />Myself, I'd gladly help women be safe by outlawing prostitition, but then women for whatever reason willingly break that laws, and endanger themselves despite society's care for them, disallowing their economic freedom to exploit themselves to pay their bills.<br /><br />So the libertarians would say we have to allow women to endanger their health and safety to use their god-given assets to survive, while I say I want to live in a world where a woman never has to make that decision - to feel her only choice for economic security was sex with a stranger.<br /><br />Well, at least that's a small enough example to show - if I can't protect one woman who wants to make bad choices, what hope do I have to protect all woman? And of course, the Muslim world has the same love to protect women, and in the limit can completely protects them from interacting in the public domain.<br /><br />So I sort of go back to God - he gives us free will, and the only price for free will is to be responsible for whatever happens to us, even if we couldn't control the outcome. And if we aspire to a "safe world that means us well", then we're setting ourselves up as victims, and have to blame others for taking advantage of our free choices.<br /><br />So the reality should be "We are nothing to the world" and "We belong to our family and community", so when we make dumb mistakes missing the first, we have a "support system" that can help us, and that's the positive side of "tribalism." and its just unfortunate not everyone has sufficient access to that.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com