1/28/2024 0 Comments Token grabber discord dh![]() Actually the similarities are kind of uncanny, except my friend isn’t autistic: he’s very “dark enlightenment” and wishes we could return to a much older/more conservative/more religious system (I don’t know if he would say medieval feudalism is already too advanced), but he is an atheist, introverted, oldest son, mid-30s, has depression, etc. The only friendship I ever terminated as an adult was with someone saying approximately the same thing as you. If you’re a worthless parasite, then so are 150-million-plus of your fellow citizens. It’s also worth bearing in mind that, in modern western countries, most people use up more money in government services than they pay in taxation. The most famous example would probably be ancient Rome, where the government used to buy up lots of grain and sell it to the poor at a subsidised price. Plus, there are examples of direct state welfare in older societies, too. Since the king and the government were pretty much synonymous, the money to care for the sick was coming from the government, just with the Church acting as an intermediary organisation which actually delivered the care. Back in the day, the Church was largely responsible for caring for the sick, and most of the Church’s wealth came from royal lands which various pious kings had given it. I’m not sure the distinction between the modern welfare state and its medieval equivalent is so clear-cut. It seems that your standards are much stricter that Nazi ones – maybe you can relax them a little?īut I don’t live in such a society, and I’m not living off such willing charity (which might be at least less immoral, if still far from virtuous), but from taxation-backed parasitism. Patients who are not German citizens, or are not or German or kindred blood, giving race and nationality. Patients who are in custody as criminally insane.Ĥ. Patients who have been continually institutionalized for at least five years.ģ. The diseases were schizophrenia, epilepsy, senile diseases, therapy-resistant paralysis and other syphilitic sequelae, feeblemindedness from any cause, encephalitis, Huntington’s chorea, and other neurological conditions of a terminal nature.Ģ. Patients suffering from specified diseases who are not employable or are employable only in simple mechanical work. The “ideal society” you describe is something from fevered dreams of most hardcore modern Social Darwinists, not something that ever existed, not even in Nazi Germany.įor example, there were targets of Nazi T4 euthanasia program:ġ. The “hard working” folks of top 1% who pay the most taxes are, by traditionalist standards, infidels and heretics who deserve to die and have all their ill gotten wealth expropriated by True Believers once the True King comes. To support them was work of Christian and Muslim charity, Buddhist compassion or Confucian benevolence. In past societies admired by you, the sick and disabled were not seen as “parasites”, but fellow children of God. Expect it out in a few days to weeks.īecause I’m a useless, worthless, defective parasite Speaking of which, I’ve been busy working on a new survey. I’ll probably include a question on the survey about what people prefer.Ħ. I was considering switching from a per-post to per-month donation system anyway, just because most people program their per-post donations so they only count for the first few posts per month anyway, but I’m not sure. If you left my Patreon because of that, you may want to un-leave. Patreon has since said they’re not going to do that. I know many people left Patreon because of their plan to levy big fees on small donations. Some very minor updates to the Mistakes, Comments, and Predictions pages on the top.ĥ. Related: MIRI is holding their annual fundraiser.Ĥ. New ad for for the AI Safety Reading Group, meets every Wednesday night on Skype.ģ. ![]() But comment of the week is Cameron Mahoney on pharma scams.Ģ. Some people arguing at length against my post on taxes and on harassment. You can also talk at the SSC subreddit or the SSC Discord server. ![]() Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ![]() This is the bi-weekly visible open thread. ![]()
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