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Originally Posted by Inuzuka Skysword
Roads: Whoever wants to pay for them. Roads built immorally are still built immorally so even if our road system would not be as connected as it is, eventually someone will come up with an easier/cheaper way to make them because it is capitalism.
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I don't see where someone paying to have a road built turns a profit for them. Why should I pay for a road that everyone is going to use? Do you think roads are made in some kind of an expensive and frivolous way and that can just be transformed into an easily maintained and cheap road so easily? Wouldn't that require you know, researching, testing, development, various trials, etc and doesn't that all cost money? Everyone who contributes to your society in these manners would have to be incredibly rich and to think, a road still wouldn't turn a profit! Why should anyone bother then?
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And what guarantee is there that the right people who will donate will become rich?: Well I can guarantee that rational people will donate. Otherwise, you have anarchy and the society may result and an immoral government.
Just their "rationality?" And what incentive is there to donate?:
I listed the incentive above, but the rich man has the incentive to donate because if he doesn't all hell will break lose and it will be targeted towards him. The rich man is the one who is blamed for almost everything these days. Plus, you have looters who would just steal form him anyways. So if the man can have some security by donating some money to the government, why not give a bit?
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So your society is donations away from anarchy and chaos, nice. Who's to say how much needs to be donated? And what if the security people want more than the rich can give them because they're too busy trying to make roads for no profit?
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Are you even aware how much it costs to adequately maintain an Armed Force?:
Well it depends on how big the armed forces are. If the demand for an armed force is high, people will donate. If it is low, people won't. The army will also benefit from the capitalist economy. Lots of things get done under capitalism. So eventually the army will be better and easier to maintain. Also, to take into consideration, we are getting further and further from using armies. We are finding new ways to kill each other without having to see the person die. Eventually armies will probably phase out. I am not using this point to support my argument, however.
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How will the army benefit from the capitalist economy? Their pay is dependent on "rationality" and "morality." What if we get invaded? We won't have many allies because I doubt your system of government has any room for being involved in international organizations or having ambassadors or silly things like that. So our nation's defense will depend on how much money we can muster and hopefully some other nation's pity.
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And then a police force for the entire country?
Again, supply and demand. Plus, our current police men are paid to go after people for dumb **** like drugs. Things would not work that way under this system.
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What aren't the citizens paying for here? It seems to me like all the with any money to spare are going to be donating to everything from roads to police to an army and if they don't they'll be f
ucked because than people will just straight after them. Strikes me as kind of funny you're going on about taxes being immoral and yet your form of government demands you either donate or better make sure you're not successful.
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I cannot answer this question without getting into philosophy. If you really want me to answer, then ask the question again. Of course you would have obvious violations such as breaks in contractual agreements, which would be solved by the government. Though I would need you to define "fair and even handed."
Ethics is one of the four main branches of philosophy.
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It's not hard to define fair and even handed. Like you know, not dumping nuclear waste into rivers or oceans, preparing foods in sterile environments. The things our government regulates and demands in industry now.