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Re: bitcoin changing my ideology from socialism to libertarianism! What about you?
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Beliathon
on 07/08/2014, 18:15:43 UTC
An apple is alive. is taking it and eating it thereby violence in your definition?


Letting someone starve isn't violence.
It is if you have surplus food and you're not sharing. It's also cruel, discompassionate, and inhumane.

Same as when you have excess shelter and you're not sharing with those who have no shelter, and in fact relying on violence/force to keep them OUT of your unused shelter because you're waiting for someone with money to come along and provide you with a profit. Along 5th avenue in Manhattan there are many luxury apartments and condos that are empty all year. They are owned by wealthy europeans who use them as a way of hiding their wealth from local governments for tax purposes. They have some niece or nephew stay there a few days a year when passing through New York. Meanwhile the number of homeless grows each year...

Such is the waste of capitalism.

Using the starving person as an example. If I stand in front of an apple so that another who is starving may not eat, because I am saving it for my own starving child then am I being violent?
That's a strawman argument and not at all what happens in modern (or historical) capitalism. This is the reality you are ignoring. 55% of food produced worldwide is wasted for the sake of maximizing profit.