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[+] -10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think it's partly cause people don't want to take what's rightfully theirs.

if you have 10 apples and I have 1, I wouldn't want to take one from you simply cause you have more. if, however, I knew you'd nefariously gotten 5 apples by forcibly taking them from others, then that would be a different story

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It's more like you have a million apples, and there's a whole town with 1 apple each who're starving. It doesn't matter how you got those apples, that town should storm your house and take them, because you don't need them and the fact that you're hoarding them at all is an indication that you shouldn't be allowed to make that decision.

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  • Wouldn't the analogy be 1,000,000,000 apples compared to a few apples and for a sizable population, 0 apples. Isn't that a sign of a broken system? Isn't there some level of greed and most likely corruption in the idea of holding 1 billion apples to yourself?

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