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Can we ever have a truly free society?

Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:14 pm

I love this forum. Conflicting views are able to be expressed without being censored. It is truly a freer place than any forum I've ever seen. A hotbed for anarchists, libertarians and voluntaryists.

Yet seeing that some users are banned has made me think whether there can ever be a space or community that has total freedom. Understandably there were justifications for the bans. Perhaps those banned may have threatened violence and crossed that red line. But how and where does the line get drawn between what is allowed and what it not?

Also, who is the one decide what is allowed? In the old silk road website, were the moderators who despised authoritarian governments for imposing their whims on society, guilty of imposing laws the forum members as well. Their regulations were justified but they were still imposed regulations.

There is no empirical evidence for a truly free society in this world, maybe such a society can never exist. Unless, one day many crypto owners can unite to buy an island where everyone can live freely without taxes or public laws. =)

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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:02 pm

Even in a truly free society we have regulations. They are just regulations enforced and agreed to by private individuals via contract law.

Regulations put in place by governments are based upon threats of force and coercion. Regulations put in place by individuals are voluntary; if you don't agree with them, don't enter their private property.
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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:20 pm

Regulations put in place by governments are based upon threats of force and coercion. Regulations put in place by individuals are voluntary; if you don't agree with them, don't enter their private property.
But that begs the question: what if someone (who did not sign any contract with you) disagrees about this being your private property and enters anyway? Would you resort to threats of force to get him to respect your rules?

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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:07 pm

Regulations put in place by governments are based upon threats of force and coercion. Regulations put in place by individuals are voluntary; if you don't agree with them, don't enter their private property.
But that begs the question: what if someone (who did not sign any contract with you) disagrees about this being your private property and enters anyway? Would you resort to threats of force to get him to respect your rules?
This is precisely why a civilized society can only be founded on the recognition of private property. Without private property, things like theft, aggression and fraud have no meaning because nothing belongs to anyone and everything belongs to everyone.

In a society that recognizes private property, all of your peers would agree that that "someone" who disagrees with you about your private property is wrong. For instance, you can show them that your house is there, or that you have the documents showing the previous owner sold it to you. Other private property owners have the incentive to recognize your private property because they want their own private property to be recognized too.
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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Sat Sep 09, 2017 9:52 pm

No, it is an arachist utopia. There are always limits to freedom.
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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:02 pm

This is precisely why a civilized society can only be founded on the recognition of private property. Without private property, things like theft, aggression and fraud have no meaning because nothing belongs to anyone and everything belongs to everyone.

In a society that recognizes private property, all of your peers would agree that that "someone" who disagrees with you about your private property is wrong. For instance, you can show them that your house is there, or that you have the documents showing the previous owner sold it to you. Other private property owners have the incentive to recognize your private property because they want their own private property to be recognized too.
It stands to reason that if nobody disagree about anything conflicts would not arise. It's a very fragile equilibrium to maintain though. Other private property owners may have the incentive to recognize your private property so their own is preserved too, but that incentive diminishes as the wealth inequality increases. And even then people tend to do things that are not rational. What happens then?

Also think about this: how do parents educate the children to the rules of that society without coercing them in some way when they violate those rules?

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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:13 pm

It stands to reason that if nobody disagree about anything conflicts would not arise.
Except that's not the case at all. Of course conflicts can arise. As long as the majority recognizes that private property is the foundation of a peaceful society, they will be resistant to those who disagree and try to cause conflicts. But conflicts between private property owners will happen all the time. That's why we have laws and courts: to sort out violations of contracts.
It's a very fragile equilibrium to maintain though. Other private property owners may have the incentive to recognize your private property so their own is preserved too, but that incentive diminishes as the wealth inequality increases.
In a way it's fragile because it is so vulnerable to an ideological shift to collectivist systems like socialism and fascism, but in a way is it also very strong, because it is the powerful force that enriched all humanity and still does.

The idea that wealth inequality should be a divisive force in society is a heinous lie told by socialists to stir up revolution. First of all, wealth is NOT money. It is more accurate to equate wealth with your standard of living, and by literally ALL accounts, the standard of living of the poorest among us today is hundreds of times better than the poorest were just a century ago. Just a century ago, about 70% the global population was living in poverty (described as less than $1/day); today the rate is less than 20% even while so called "wealth inequality" has increased.

Second, wealth comes from contribution to society and some people will contribute FAR more to the betterment of humanity on this earth than others. The goal should not be to ensure everyone gets an equal share of this wealth, but to maximize the rate at which this wealth is generated. One of the best examples of this is the washing machine. Before the washing machine, washing clothes was a back-breaking task that took 2 or 3 days every week. If you were wealthy enough, you could hire someone to do it for you, but everyone wears clothes so every family had to do it.

The invention of the washing machine took billions of people from that lower level of wealth, to the same level of wealth as those people that could hire someone to do all their washing. Consider all the free time people gained by the act of washing going from 2 to 3 days per week down to about an hour per week... THAT IS WEALTH. Can you imagine denominating all that free time just gifted to humans in dollars? I hope the inventor of the washing machine became a multi-billionaire for that contribution to the wealth of everyone!
Also think about this: how do parents educate the children to the rules of that society without coercing them in some way when they violate those rules?
Parenting is an entirely different can of worms that I'm not going to pretend I know anything concrete about. One thing's for sure, everyone has a theory about the right way to raise a child until they actually have children. :D
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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Fri May 08, 2020 8:07 pm

Understood as the capacity to make our own decisions, to be autonomous when it comes to deciding our future or our actions, freedom has been one of the star themes of philosophy and psychology since its beginnings. We do not pretend to give an answer to whether or not we are free, basically because it is an unsolvable question and one in which we have not got much out of the way after more than 2000 years of thinking about it. We will be satisfied if the article makes you reflect and question your own freedom of choice, which may be nothing more than an illusion.

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Re: Can we ever have a truly free society?

Mon May 11, 2020 9:34 am

Never
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