"The idea behind me killing her was that it would improve my life. Free of all the ways she inconvenienced me, I would have greater personal opportunities. I could be happier."
Clearly there is nothing wrong with the idea of killing her.
Scatt, the king of Reducto Ad Absurdum, out.
i'm sorry but sacrificing some rights for a general higher quality of life is wrong?
No I was illustrating why your constant insistence that we're not separating the idea and execution was stupid. The idea of communism absolutely demands the complete and forcible dissolvement of any remotely free market, and demands that everything be owned by the state, and everything "economic" be controlled by the state, because
that's what makes it communism. This inherently includes the part where everyone is forced to work.
What you've been doing this entire time is separating the positive goals from the rest of the idea, which is arbitrary and extremely stupid, and I was illustrating that I could apply this same separation elsewhere, IE: a murder. "Never mind that my plan demanded I end her life,
that's just the execution."
Not absurd at all.
Please, please, please please please please please please please, know what things mean before you respond to them. This shows that at the time of reading my post you didn't know what reducto ad absurdum meant, and that you didn't look it up before formulating a response. This really is about as intelligent as trying to dispute something someone said in Norwegian without translating or knowing Norwegian (incidentally, that was another reducto ad absurdum). And in this case, it really did have that much of an impact, because the end result was that your post wasn't really a response to any sentiment I actually expressed.
Historically, until about the last 60 years, things seem to function better the more capitalistic they are, with the exception of total anarchy functioning slightly worse. In modern times, things that have a mixed economy that's about 60-70% free market seem to function best, followed by largely capitalistic places, followed by majority socialist places, with communistic places being completely dysfunctional, and anarcho-capitalist developed nations being nonexistant.