[extropy-chat] Re: Ethics and evolution

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Samantha Atkins wrote:
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> On Sep 5, 2005, at 1:34 AM, BillK wrote:
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>> If you are not as smart. well-educated, healthy, fit and capable as a
>> Lib then '**ck you, you're on your own'.
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> The strength of your argument stands alone.  No further comment is needed.

Actually, further comments are needed, because I often have the same 
doubts as Bill. For example, how would cope someone with an IQ of 80 or 
less and no education worth its name, when the available grunt jobs are 
automated away, and his market value is less and less? How can he afford 
a private health insurance?

Charitable organizations would probably exists in a libertarian 
environment like they exist in the current, mostly socialist one, but 
relying on those for everything not profitable isn't a good strategy.

Pure libertarian free-market environments to my eyes resemble too much an 
evolution-like "survival of the fittest" game, where you'll do great if 
you are good (or better, if you have marketable skills/assets), and suffer 
a lot if you aren't.

Alfio