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minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up43arrow-down1·10 days agoI’ll explain it: “You aren’t me. Your life doesn’t benefit me personally. Your death doesn’t hurt me personally. Therefore, die so my family can have what you had.”
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up20·edit-210 days agoYeah, there’s no meeting that halfway
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·10 days agoI don’t think I suggested that there was. The perspective I described is absolutist. Either they see you as family, or they don’t register you as human.
minus-squarematlag@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·10 days ago“I absolutely fucking refuse that any of the money I pay in taxes be used for anything but my own benefit.”
minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 days agoAnd by preference they’d rather pay no taxes at all (let everyone else pay though).
I’ll explain it:
“You aren’t me. Your life doesn’t benefit me personally. Your death doesn’t hurt me personally. Therefore, die so my family can have what you had.”
Yeah, there’s no meeting that halfway
I don’t think I suggested that there was. The perspective I described is absolutist. Either they see you as family, or they don’t register you as human.
“I absolutely fucking refuse that any of the money I pay in taxes be used for anything but my own benefit.”
And by preference they’d rather pay no taxes at all (let everyone else pay though).