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Originally posted by redbarron626
Raise awareness of What?? A Naive idea?? This is nonsense and will NEVER even come close to happening. OP, I am sorry to tell you this, but your idea has no real merit and no possibility of fruition. We have a better chance of crashing into Jupiter!
Originally posted by smithjustinb
I guarantee you that you can't state a single flaw in my plan that I can't rectify.
Originally posted by OnceReturned
Originally posted by smithjustinb
I guarantee you that you can't state a single flaw in my plan that I can't rectify.
Implementing it... clearly the series of events that would have to take place to move us from here to there is totally unrealistic.
Even as a philosophical exercise, imagining we're starting from scratch, it's an untenable system. If we both want to build a house in the same spot, whose freedom to build there gets exercised and whose gets surpressed? If we both want to eat the same animal, who gets it? Does your freedom to play music trump my freedom to not have to listen to it? The issue is clear: Not everyones freedoms can be expressed at once because they're often incompatable. If the natural resources are not owned by anyone, they will be used by those who can take them and those who can't take them will be without. If the natural resources are owned, we need laws and money, which is what we're trying to avoid.
What about all the jobs that people don't want to do, but that society needs done? Do we want waste disposal and plumbing? Who will want to be the trash man in this society? If we want even the most basic services, people will have to do undesirable jobs. Who decides who does those things? How can those people be free unless they're being compensated well for doing what they don't want to do? How can we compensate them without money?
If we don't want to be cavemen, we'll need industry. If we don't want to die before we're 40, we'll need medicine. In order to have industry we need infrustructure and in order to have medicine we need science and academia. These are all institutions that require a hierarchy to function. Unless we're doing back to stone age living, we'll need hierarchical institutions to get things done.
How do we enforce the one law? When some accuses some else of breaking it and that person denies it, how is it settled? What if the judges and enforcers are unjust, who oversees them? What about the really bad people who hurt kids or kill people or steal? How do we handle them? We'll need a legal system even if it's reduceable to a single law. We'll need cops, prisons, judges, lawyers, record keepers... ect. How do we identify people who have broken the law in the past? Do we have a fingerprint database? If I want to build a powerplant to power the fingerprint database, will inspectors come and make sure I'm not polluting the surrounding natural resources? Who sends the inspectors? Who sets the limit on pollution emition from the plant?
Also, people actually are lazy. It's not as though given the opportunity, most people would just build a utopian society through hard work and idealism. People who aren't being compensated or directed don't tend to get much done.
How to live and how to design civilization is a hard problem that has persisted for millenia. It's not the sort of thing that will have a silly easy answer like, "just have the only law be freedom, everything will work itself out then." That's a hopelessly naive position that fails to address reality. It might sound good when you say it fast and don't think about it, but the devil is in the details.