What I'm suggesting is impartiality. Nobody should be forced to uplift (or finance the uplifting of) anyone else. If someone wants to flush their own money down the drain by spending it on ghetto rats, well, go knock yourselves out, but I refuse to participate in fruitless waste. I'm convinced that we could have been terraforming Mars right now if it wasn't for the welfare state. Instead... https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/732/227/6c4.png
A "caste system" is perfectly normal and healthy as long as it's not enforced by the state. Hierarchies form naturally. People aren't clones, some people are, by nature, worse than others, and it's good that these people are scrounging for food in dumpsters and sleeping under bridges. It's more just than fruitlessly trying to help them by taking from better people and wasting it on them.
Don't worry, I'm perfectly familiar with the "imagine if your enemies were in power" line of thought, and I understand how important it is. My line of thought works perfectly fine if my enemies are in power, because I'm not asking for any preferential treatment, I'm asking for the exact opposite. It's fine as long as they abide by the same rules; the eternal problem is that they will never do that, because my rules are based on inescapable, objective reality, and their philosophy goes directly against that - which is why, in a sane country, of which there are currently none as far as I'm aware, someone like Augusto Pinochet would be considered a centrist. Because that's what he was, really; throwing belligerent pinkos out of helicopters is simply the sane thing to do.
What I'm suggesting is impartiality. Nobody should be forced to uplift (or finance the uplifting of) anyone else. If someone wants to flush their own money down the drain by spending it on ghetto rats, well, go knock yourselves out, but I refuse to participate in fruitless waste. I'm convinced that we could have been terraforming Mars right now if it wasn't for the welfare state. Instead... https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/732/227/6c4.png
A "caste system" is perfectly normal and healthy as long as it's not enforced by the state. Hierarchies form naturally. People aren't clones, some people are, by nature, worse than others, and it's good that these people are scrounging for food in dumpsters and sleeping under bridges. It's more just than fruitlessly trying to help them by taking from better people and wasting it on them.
Don't worry, I'm perfectly familiar with the "imagine if your enemies were in power" line of thought, and I understand how important it is. My line of thought works perfectly fine if my enemies are in power, because I'm not asking for any preferential treatment, I'm asking for the exact opposite. It's fine as long as they abide by the same rules; the eternal problem is that they will never do that, because my rules are based on inescapable, objective reality, and their philosophy goes directly against that - which is why, in a sane country, of which there are currently none as far as I'm aware, someone like Augusto Pinochet would be considered a centrist. Because that's what he was, really; throwing belligerent pinkos out of helicopters is simply the sane thing to do.