RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 23, 2017 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2017 at 3:36 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 23, 2017 at 2:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(November 23, 2017 at 2:28 pm)Hammy Wrote: A good idea in theory is a good idea in theory.
Your example about drunk driving is terrible. That's obviously a bad idea in theory and in practice.
I don't need to give any examples of a good idea in theory because I know what "in theory" means, Jesus.
In theory, if everyone contributes to the common good, society advances.
In practice, you need to get everyone on board with this idea and that just doesn't happen. When you see your beautiful plan not working because the people are uneducated or simply disagree, you force them to comply... And thus a dictatorship begins with the obvious crappy results.
Exactly right.
(November 23, 2017 at 3:14 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(November 23, 2017 at 2:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: In theory, if everyone contributes to the common good, society advances.
In practice, you need to get everyone on board with this idea and that just doesn't happen. When you see your beautiful plan not working because the people are uneducated or simply disagree, you force them to comply... And thus a dictatorship begins with the obvious crappy results.
Who gets to define "contribute" and "common good"?
If we're talking linguistic definitions, then usually that's the stuff of Webster and Oxford, but if we're talking conceptual definitions, then that's usually the stuff of philosophy.
