Originally Posted by
ImmortalPig
You are arbitrarily deciding that /this/ is different to everything else that has happened in history.
It sounds like an iPhone advert; "This changes everything" - um actually apple it's just another phone it's not that new really...
GM is comparable because in the context of divisions of society it is identical as countless things that have happened before.
Quit bringing up the iPhone - you recognise that we're not talking about products, so quit bringing it up. It's irrelevant to the discussion.
Just because gm acts as a division in society doesn't mean it will have the same effect as different divisions. This is just common sense. There are issues intimately unique to gm, just as there as issues intimately unique to Sunni/Shi'a muslims.
Now, you suggested that "If our sample size is all of history, and in all of these events the outcome has not been dystopic then we can safely assume that one more similar event won't be the straw to break the camel's back."
First off, I never said that gm would result in dystopia. I said the very opposite. I said it is unknowable. The only reason I mentioned dystopic sci-fi was because you said you couldn't see anyway that gm could go wrong. Those books postulate ways that it could go wrong. You can't think of a way that gm could go wrong, those people can. They'll help you think of ways that it can go wrong. That's all that point was.
You said "Got any arguments that aren't in the realm of fiction?". Well, I'm not basing my argument on sci-fi books, as I just said. My argument, which I've reiterated so many times, is that
we don't know, so asserting something as being completing good or completely bad is very myopic. I really have no idea how you can keep misrepresenting me so badly - I stated this exact argument in pretty much all of my posts in this thread.
Originally Posted by
ImmortalPig
At least it's not based on the assumption that your favourite dystopian book will come real!
Maybe there will be zombies too!!!1 AND LIGHTSABERS!111
I hope, now, that you can see how far removed from my argument your representation of it is.
Originally Posted by
ImmortalPig
Hate to tell you this mate but Rome broke up a while ago. I don't think the 'capite censi' are still around :/
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So?
You said, "Land/landless classes? First I've heard of it". I educated you. You're welcome.