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China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown
Clandestine_Blaze writes "Chinese police have arrested 5,394 people — with another 4,186 criminal cases in the works — in one of the largest crackdowns on Internet porn in the country. Even more arrests are expected in 2010, according to the Ministry of Public Security's website (In Chinese or Google translated into English). According to the Reuters article on the crackdown, one of the justifications was that the pornography was 'threatening the emotional health of children.' From the English translation of the Ministry of Public Security's website linked above, it appears that certain provinces are also offering 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan rewards, per person, for reporting illegal websites to the government."
Well, there basically never was a communist state in human history. ;)
Because, as far as I remember, a real communist state has no government, but is governed from the bottom up.
Those government in those states are supposed to be temporary, to implement the changes, and then dissolve themselves.
Yeah, that never happens.
The thing is, that the communist idea, in theory is really nice. Just as democracy.
The problem is, that both ideas are based on faulty theory. The communist one even more than the democracy one.
The error is, that they assume there would be such a thing as 100% altruistic people who could ignore their own interests in favor of the general public. To put them in charge. Basically as a medium. A channel for the interests of the people.
Of course that is just a pretty dream, as there is no such thing in reality. The whole evolution is the exact opposite of this. Any organism of that kind would die out in the blink of an eye. To be replaced by something that only cares for itself.
But the idea stems from the fact, that we as humans, are really great at teamwork. We are the only ones who have a “society” which is basically a huge team, working together. The thing is though: While for most of the time that humans existed, we were small groups of 20-30 people, we now are huge teams. Way too huge.
Our common good has taken a back seat, and we focus more on personal gain.
I think, a nice model is the Arabic philosophy of “me and you, against the town. me, you and the town, against the [county]. me, you, the town and the [county] against the country. ... etc” Basically a fractal model of priority. That way you can still profit from team work, and only look at the large groups if needed. You don’t become egocentric that easily.
But I’m digressing.
What we need is small groups. Where you can’t survive if you act egocentric and try to become a dictator. Where the group can easily personally come up to you, and throw you out. Where the personal gain IS the gain of your group. Like a large family basically. Protecting your genes. Ever if you die, you will then live on.
But also on that new level of ideas/mindsets. (You may be aware of the concept that one can look at those like lifeforms, and that the models then strangely still fit.) Small communities (and/or fractal ones) on the Internet, protecting your mindset/ideas, so they will live on.
In my opinion, our current forms of society don’t really work for that exact reason. A leader wants to have a personal (or small group) gain. It’s in his genes because of billions of years of evolution enforcing it. It’s only natural.
So naturally, he always and without exception will have huge conflict with the interests of people that elected him. This is unavoidable.
But I still don’t know how this knowledge helps me, live in a society where my interests and that of my group don’t conflict. Other than starting a family and emigrating to the wilderness ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Socialist crackpots have defined socialism and communism as good, hence by definition nothing bad is part of it.
The right-wing has branded socialism as fundamentally bad, and anything remotely not lassez-faire as a left-wing "crackpot" idiocy.
You then went on to completely mischaracterize moral individualism. Take a course in ethics or social psychology. Might add some substance to your arguments.
Can we *PLEASE* have an intelligent discussion?
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