Comments for The Outside Wor(L)d http://marcokon.com By Marc Okon ... If It Takes Me 8 Years To Write A Book, It Should Take The Reader 8 Years To Understand It - James Joyce : Alexa Ranking: Top 80k In Internet Traffic as of 6.2010 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on The Rights Of Existence By Marc Okon by Noam Chomsky http://marcokon.com/?p=18&cpage=1#comment-94 Noam Chomsky Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:30:35 +0000 http://marcokon.com/?p=18#comment-94 Well Put. I appreciated reading it and hope that it touches the hearts of others. Well Put. I appreciated reading it and hope that it touches the hearts of others.

]]> Comment on The Rights Of Existence By Marc Okon by Dave Scotese http://marcokon.com/?p=18&cpage=1#comment-10 Dave Scotese Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:51:16 +0000 http://marcokon.com/?p=18#comment-10 "This will not cause a decrease in productive activity or motivation for creating new innovations, as some critics assert, but rather remove the destructive force of pitting the “haves” vs “the have nots” and take away the intoxicating, drug like sensation of owning and controlling people who have been dealt random misfortune or have less goodies or more scruples than they do." How can you know? I myself suffer from a lack of motivation specifically because my efforts to improve my own lot are divided between me an others, and those others put their "legal share" of my efforts toward ends that make my life worse. I believe the equal division you promote will have both effects. I would choose to remove the enforcers of any system rather than install them. If that system were designed to provide equally to everyone, wouldn't the natural human tendency to favor oneself and ones own loved ones over everyone else mess it up? I believe the only way to prevent that tendency to be self-centered is to crush the individual spirit. That, to me, is evil. I get a long better with self-centered people than with anyone else. Maybe I'm too mature or grown up? “This will not cause a decrease in productive activity or motivation for creating new innovations, as some critics assert, but rather remove the destructive force of pitting the “haves” vs “the have nots” and take away the intoxicating, drug like sensation of owning and controlling people who have been dealt random misfortune or have less goodies or more scruples than they do.”

How can you know? I myself suffer from a lack of motivation specifically because my efforts to improve my own lot are divided between me an others, and those others put their “legal share” of my efforts toward ends that make my life worse.

I believe the equal division you promote will have both effects. I would choose to remove the enforcers of any system rather than install them. If that system were designed to provide equally to everyone, wouldn’t the natural human tendency to favor oneself and ones own loved ones over everyone else mess it up? I believe the only way to prevent that tendency to be self-centered is to crush the individual spirit. That, to me, is evil. I get a long better with self-centered people than with anyone else. Maybe I’m too mature or grown up?

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