by Lobster » Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:18 pm
It's useless, it's like talking with a certain fringe of libertarian, you know the type, with the childlike faith in the illdefined but apparently all-powerfull Invisible Hand of the free market. There's just another nebulous, intangible concept at work here, perhaps you could call it the Invisible Heart or something. A naive belief that people do bad things because the world forces them to, and that if given the choice everyone would happily contribute to the greater good. Probably born out of some type of post-modernist "blank slate" interpretation of human psychology.