Italy bans 48 porn sites “for your safety”. The state as your digital parent.

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Following this reasoning, wouldn’t the logical outcome be a stateless society, ie people cooperating freely without coercive institutions? If that’s the ideal, what explains the persistence of states throughout history? Why has no large-scale society managed to sustain itself without a state?

life in general is a game and competition over scarce resources (over power in the sense of usable energy)
living organisms develop strategies to harvest and protect these resources in any conceivable form - all that under an evolutionary pressure and all that being non-optional - i.e. "adjust or disappear"

the same applies to humans without exceptions but we have something on top which makes thing peculiar - we are capable of abstract thinking, local definitions and agreements, using notions - state is just one of the advanced approaches and manifestations of the power projection game, a covert strategy to drain resources from others - this will continue until humans invent a tool to conserve energy the way it's resistant to physical violence

 

[JohnnyDoe]

life in general is a game and competition over scarce resources (over power in the sense of usable energy)
living organisms develop strategies to harvest and protect these resources in any conceivable form - all that under an evolutionary pressure and all that being non-optional - i.e. "adjust or disappear"

the same applies to humans without exceptions but we have something on top which makes thing peculiar - we are capable of abstract thinking, local definitions and agreements, using notions - state is just one of the advanced approaches and manifestations of the power projection game, a covert strategy to drain resources from others - this will continue until humans invent a tool to conserve energy the way it's resistant to physical violence

While animals steal food, humans steal through procedure.

The mafia state is just legalized plunder. The tragedy is that humans can think abstractly, yet mostly use that gift to justify new hierarchies rather than escape them.

Until we build a system that makes coercion unprofitable, something that converts energy, information, or value in ways immune to force, the cycle stays. Civilization will keep repainting the same scam: new flags, same racket.
We already have something that converts energy into untouchable value: btc. It’s the closest humanity has come to making theft obsolete.

 

[Marty McFly]

if "should" whose preference is it?
if "banned" by whom? who will enforce it?

It doesn’t matter who and how, religion is bad. The best way to get rid of it is that everyone bans the concept from his own mind, as it’s the only place where it can exist and it doesn’t deserve even a thought.

 

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It doesn’t matter who and how, religion is bad. The best way to get rid of it is that everyone bans the concept from his own mind, as it’s the only place where it can exist and it doesn’t deserve even a thought.

you're dead wrong here

there is no objective right/wrong, failure to realize this is the crux of what people usually call evil

 

[JohnnyDoe]

you're dead wrong here

there is no objective right/wrong,

😀

 

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😀

I love when people understand a good joke

and I'm even happier if they understand that whatever I say is just my model (which I find the best at the given moment and which leads to best result in my metric) and not the objective truth