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Originally Posted by Von Due
First: If you read my first post, I make it very clear that I have no illusions of a global moneyless society. Quite the opposite, in fact but I do question the arguements for money being absolutely neccessary for humans as a species coming out of evolution. I also question whether it is valid to use, as you certainly do, our society as some form of base society all other modern society must be based on. I question things, it is healthy to question things. Religious-like fanatics don't need to be religious, all it takes is a hostility towards the question "is this the best we can do or can we do better?".
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In other words, faced with the truth, you back off everything you said and now pose it in a purely theoretical, fun/experimental manner. And you recast my position into "this is the best of all possible worlds." Both sides of your new stance are vacuous. People are practical beings who do what works. If thuggery works then we tend to do that. And we love to pretend to be a higher being than what we are and benevolently prescribe cyanide for mankind as some kind of kindness. Philosophers often do that. It's one of the tricks of the trade: never be responsible for the consequences of what you contend.
In your model society you'd be the first one off the island.