(Persons could be artificial entities, legal fictions, or flesh and blood humans.)
(I do appreciate that I don't have to explain cognitive dissonance to you.)
Notes to be moved/removed here and other post.
https://www.synapticsparks.info/dialog/index.php?topic=1548.msg16779#msg16779ℙ𝔸ℝ𝕋 𝟙
𝓢: Overriding another's will is the basis for plenty of wrong actions. Why do you believe it all equals "slavery"
I appreciate the question. You are asking for clarification. Your inquiry indicates to me that you have a list of "wrong actions", as do I. I'm going to guess my list has more items than yours.
The one item that is not on my list of wrong actions is the overriding of another person's will when that other person's will is to initiate harm against a human.
𝓢: Deciding that *everything* involving an imposition of will somehow equals slavery is very strange and is factually incorrect.
You brought up "an imposition of will" in your employer-employee relationship comment. The employer is the corporate entity. The corporate entity's will is communicated to the employees as interpreted by the supervisor(s). If the collective of humans in corporate employ do not say "Our business is [...]" in essentially the same words, from the janitor to the COO/president, then that business has failed in providing a common vision for all its humans.
I allowed the "imposition of will" of an almost good enough way to conduct business for a paycheck.
I quit when the "imposition of will" was to lie to customers.
<Tangent>
Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution Pub. 1987
A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference Pub. 1984
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies Pub. 1982
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After reading these books, I chafed at not being allowed execute perfection.
As the rule of thumb says;
FAST & CHEAP but it won’t be good quality
CHEAP & GOOD QUALITY, but it won’t be quick or on time
ON TIME and GOOD QUALITY but it cannot be CHEAP
𝓢: Deciding that *everything* involving an imposition of will somehow equals slavery is very strange and is factually incorrect. There is no nuance here, you are simply wrong.
𝓢: you are simply wrong.
I reject your opinion. Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
I appreciate that you explained why that is your opinion. Thank you.
𝓢: You've decided that you get to decide the definition of words now, but you'll have to excuse those who stick with the true meaning.
For a smart person, such as you have actually proven several times over, with double diplomas to boot, I am simply aghast at your presentment of your lack of knowledge of communication. A higher level educated person such as your self must surely be aware of what is referred to as "Voltaire's Admonition." Paraphrased as: If you wish to communicate, first define your terms.
𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓶-𝔀𝓮𝓫𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻.𝓬𝓸𝓶 › 𝓭𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓻𝔂 › 𝓭𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓻𝔂
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓯 𝓓𝓘𝓒𝓣𝓘𝓞𝓝𝓐𝓡𝓨 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓽 𝓸𝓻 𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓬 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼 𝓾𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓵𝓹𝓱𝓪𝓫𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓭 𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓼, 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓾𝓷𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼, 𝓯𝓾𝓷𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼, 𝔼𝕥𝕪𝕞𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝔂𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓭𝓲𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓼.
𝓢: but you'll have to excuse those who stick with the true meaning.
From the page the above quoted synopsis links to:
𝓖𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓭, 𝕦𝕡-𝕥𝕠-𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓶-𝓦𝓮𝓫𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻.
"True meaning"? When? You know damn well the meanings can drift with time.
𝕖𝕥𝕪𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖.𝕔𝕠𝕞
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕖𝕥𝕪𝕞𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕪 𝕕𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕪 (𝕖𝕥𝕪𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖) 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕥'𝕤 𝕘𝕠-𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕚𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝔼𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤, 𝕡𝕙𝕣𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕕𝕚𝕠𝕞𝕤. 𝕀𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕗𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕗𝕪 𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕔 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖.
“𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓘 𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭,” 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓹𝓽𝔂 𝓓𝓾𝓶𝓹𝓽𝔂 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪 𝓼𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓽𝓸𝓷𝓮, “𝓲𝓽 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷 — 𝓷𝓮𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓷𝓸𝓻 𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼.”
“𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓲𝓼,” 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮, “𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷 𝓼𝓸 𝓶𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓭𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼.”
“𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓲𝓼,” 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓹𝓽𝔂 𝓓𝓾𝓶𝓹𝓽𝔂, “𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 – – 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓵.”
ℙ𝔸ℝ𝕋 𝟚
I reject your statement of your opinion, quoted in part 1, as itself factually incorrect due to the imprecision of the words used. My edit of your sentence to remove the imprecision I object to.
𝓢: Deciding that *everything* involving an [overriding of another's will] somehow equals slavery is very strange and is factually incorrect.
𝓢: You've decided that you get to decide the definition of words now, but you'll have to excuse those who stick with the true meaning.
Okay...
SLAVE: 𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓼 𝓸𝔀𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓽𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓮𝓵𝓼𝓮, 𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓲𝓷 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓲𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓮.
𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓻 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻.
𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓳𝓮𝓬𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓻 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪 𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓵𝓾𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮.
𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓗𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮® 𝓓𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓔𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝓛𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓪𝓰𝓮, 5𝓽𝓱 𝓔𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷. 𝓜𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓽 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓷𝓲𝓴
SLAVE: 𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖒-𝖜𝖊𝖇𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗.𝖈𝖔𝖒 › 𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖞 › 𝖘𝖑𝖆𝖛𝖊
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝕾𝕷𝕬𝖁𝕰 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖉 𝖎𝖓 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖊𝖉 𝖘𝖊𝖗𝖛𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖊.
SLAVE: 𝒹𝒾𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓇𝓎.𝒸𝑜𝓂 › 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓌𝓈𝑒 › 𝓈𝓁𝒶𝓋𝑒
𝒮𝓁𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝒶 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓉𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓈𝓊𝒷𝒿𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓋𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝓅𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝓁𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓇. 𝒮𝑒𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒.
Do I need to hit this particular dead slave, er... horse any more?
My definition of 𝔸 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕙𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕨𝕟𝕖𝕣'𝕤 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕧𝕖'𝕤 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 comports itself with the above dictionhistory entries.
𝓢: Overriding another's will is the basis for plenty of wrong actions. Why do you believe it all equals "slavery"? Rape is an example.
Are you going to claim a woman being raped is not a sex slave for the duration of the rape? Was that woman's time and life not stolen for the duration of the rape?
𝓢: Robbery is another.
Are you going to claim a human spending time earning what was taken wasn't the taking of that time and energy spent earning the property taken? Are you going to claim that the robbery didn't change the time working into enslavement for the benefit of the enslaving robber against the victim's will, albeit unknowingly by the victim at the time?
𝓢: I have the *ability* to breathe. Rights are a human social construct.
We agree that "rights" are a human social construct.
What was the purpose of the construction of the concept of rights. (Rhetorical because you did approach this. Your quote is in part 3.)
𝓓: Do you have a right to fend off someone attempting to suffocate you?
𝓢: I have both the ability and the right, in the USA.
𝓓: If I were to attempt to suffocate you, do you have a right to fend me off?
𝓢: I have both the ability and the right, in the USA.
𝓢: Rights are assigned by man. Period.
Would you have a right to fend off someone attempting to suffocate you if you were not in the USA?
In other words:
Would you have a right to fend off someone attempting to suffocate you if a right to life was not assigned to you?
𝓢: Since we have not talked about my morals, and have only talked about the truth of the world, it is interesting that you believe you can judge my morals. But since I believe your moral compass to be lacking, I suppose it is only fair for you to make assumptions about me.
I would love to find out my assumption regarding your morality is wrong.
𝓢: I do not require any type of [...] philosophical guidelines to tell right from wrong. It's really not that hard.
Regardless, you learned right from wrong and internalized your experiential guidelines. You and I both learned those experiential guidelines growing up.
Even though most have no clue about experiential guidelines and never question what they are, all have them.
For example, a child observes mom and / or dad shoplifting. Does this not indicate to the child that stealing is not wrong?
How did most parents learn to parent? Were they not taught parenting and parenting guidelines by how their parents parented them? What are their cognitions regarding right from wrong parenting... If any?
There appears to me, a difference between you and I. I examined my "right from wrong" dogma/ guidelines by the light of "right from wrong" philosophical guidelines. Bradshaw on the Family Pub. 1988 in the case of my fup and wrong family values.
What has not been addressed is the philosophical guidelines of "right from wrong" that I use.
𝓢: Know what else is wrong? Wanting to bring about a destructive, violent society, knowing full well that many will die and suffer, just so you can espouse a ridiculous philosophical-turned-political idea.
Since we are opining about each others wrongs, know what else is wrong? Ignoring that society is already destructive, violent, and makes many die and suffer.
You are blind to this truth. I understand that you, like the majority, have no clue about that particular, provable. reality. I'll save you some typing: I know you reject that claim.
ℙ𝔸ℝ𝕋 𝟛
𝓓: The tooth fairy is a human mental construct; a human concept; 𝓢: "all invented by the minds of humans."
So is Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, any corporate person... And government.
𝓢: All of it only exists in the minds of men. Money, certificates, degrees, ranks, titles, religion, philosophy, laws, etc etc etc. are all only possible because humans have a unique ability to form complex ideas, agree to them, and share them within their society and across societies. Humans are able to exist ONLY BECAUSE we are able to all agree to a certain imaginary "thing".
I labelled a question in part 1 rhetorical because you wrote this. I have some nits to pick with what you listed. Some I wish to delve into, others are not important enough for me to examine.
I am taking this as your admission that the purpose of these imaginary things is to avoid a destructive, violent society, with many dying and suffering. Your silence on this will suffice as agreement to my assumption and save you some typing.
𝓢: For example, the entire world runs on money, but money doesn't actually exist.
Per G. Edward Griffin in THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND Pub. 1994, Money is a measure and store of value.
Rephrasing your opinion / claim to match my observation of the world: The entire world runs on "a measure and store of value". That is all one needs to know to examine ANY thing having to do with "money".
To split hairs, Federal Reserve Notes are NOT money. They are "currency" that must be accepted as payment of a debt. They are LEGAL TENDER, and as is printed on each and every FRN, "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE".
Federal Reserve NOTEs are Federal Reserve IOU's, just like a mortgage or a installment payment plan used in purchasing a car. In fact, I read on one of the twelve Federal Reserve banks' website, the admission that FRN's are "monetized debt".
𝓢: We all just agree that this substance (gold, silver, pears, rice, cookies, brandy, etc) is worth this much, and this work is worth this much, and employees should be paid this way, while CEOs should be paid this way, etc etc etc etc.
You and I ARE NOT WE. You, I, your sister ARE NOT WE.
I object to your reification of the term "WE", implying that the many, the collective, are a single entity and that the many, the collective, have given you authority to speak for each and every individual included, corralled, or fenced in by the term "WE".
𝓢: Now, even though money is imaginary, what do you think would happen if all money in the world disappeared?
Apparently you don't understand what money is. Nor its types.
𝟣. 𝒞𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑜𝒹𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓎
𝟤. 𝑅𝑒𝒸𝑒𝒾𝓅𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓎
𝟥. 𝐹𝒾𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓎
𝟦. 𝐹𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓎
𝓢: Society would collapse.
That's your opinion.
𝓢: The same thing would happen if you removed the ability to recognize education with a degree, or training with a certificate.
That's your opinion.
I will admit that determining who has knowledge would be "slightly" harder to discern.
My certification/diploma from my military training in electronics is not what got me into several of the jobs I've had over the years. Quick quizzes on technical knowledge is what did. In fact, a tech quiz on "ladder diagrams", something that I had never seen prior to this quiz, is what helped me get the position. I figured it out on the fly, thus proving I could read the diagram even as I learned to read the diagram, understood its control of its machine, and found the problems as quizzed on the machine. I have very good "figure it out" ability. I know this because I know myself, and because my peers observed me using my figure it out ability and commented on the same.
It's not that hard to determine who's blowing smoke up your ass when you know the information you are quizzing another about.
Back to your opinion that society is going to collapse without certifications and degrees... I'll leave you to look up "Galloping Gertie", designed by credentialed engineers. I'll leave you to look up Apollo 13, designed and built by credentialed engineers. (Don't look at what the credentialed engineer that designed the New York trade center towers to withstand a Boeing 707 impact said about the towers collapsing.)
𝓢: Same thing if you removed government.
I know, without any doubt, that you and I do NOT agree on what the traits, properties, attributes, characteristics & elements of "government" is. I know, without any doubt, that you will reject both of my definitions of what government actually is.
𝓢: What is your point? Humans kill other humans all the time. Yes, I absolutely completely 100% reject the idea of "natural rights". They don't exist.
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𝓓: Do you have a right to life?
𝓢: Depends on where you live.
𝓓: Do you have a right to fend off someone attempting to suffocate you?
𝓢: I have both the ability and the right, in the USA.
𝓓: Do you have a right to protect your life?
𝓢: Depends on where you live.
What's the difference between human rights and natural rights?
Are you going to claim neither exists?
𝓢: I have the ability to hold my opinions. In this country, I also have the right to say them out loud.
How can you have a right to anything if rights don't exist.
𝓢: I don't conflate rights with ability, as you appear to do.
I don't accept "might makes right" which you have been not just accepting, but arguing for...
"Might makes right" is exactly what has lead to the destructive, violent society, with many dying and suffering that provably currently exists.
𝓢: It is very telling that many of the"rights" we take for granted in this country would equal imprisonment or death in another.
What, exactly, are the traits, properties, attributes, characteristics, and elements of these various rights?
What, specifically, is common with all these various rights?
Commonality of various rights? The right to not be harmed by another human?
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