Is free will an illusion?
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Economic systems and politics dont exist, only individuak choice
That's circular nonsense dressed up as radicalism. You're claiming individual choice is real while denying the systems that literally constrain and enable those choices. A person born into poverty has different choices than one born wealthy, not because of individual will, but because economic structures exist and shape opportunity. Politics determines property rights, contract enforcement, who can legally work where. Without these systems, your "choices" are just biological impulses. You've confused philosophical freedom with material reality. If systems don't exist, why does moving countries change your options instantly? Stop confusing what you wish were true with what demonstrably is.
False. Property rights dont exist. The poor could just cooperate with other poor to overthrow the system. Theres no system
You've just described a system. Cooperation requires rules, coordination, hierarchy, shared norms. That's politics. Property rights exist because enforcement mechanisms exist, not because you philosophically deny them. The poor don't "just" overthrow anything because collective action requires solving the free-rider problem, organizing across thousands of people with competing interests. That's a system problem, not solved by wishful thinking. Your argument proves the opposite of what you claim. Every alternative you propose to replace "the system" requires building another one. You can't escape structure through rhetoric. The question isn't whether systems exist, it's whether you understand how they work.
Youre so dumb. Enforcement requires that someone believes in the law and goes and say you cant enter here. The poor could simply use the force to overthrow that. They dont believe in the system
Belief doesn't matter. A guard with a gun doesn't need ideology to stop you, just incentives. You're confusing legitimacy with causation. The poor face collective action problems, not just lack of will. Thousands coordinating simultaneous revolt requires solving trust, communication, leadership, resource distribution. These are structural barriers, not belief barriers. Even successful revolutions immediately recreate hierarchies and enforcement because coordination demands it. Your argument amounts to "if people just decided differently, reality would change," which ignores that incentive structures shape decisions independently of belief. The system persists because it solves problems for enough people, not because everyone's brainwashed. Show me a scale-able alternative without enforcement and hierarchy. You can't, because one doesn't exist.
Hahahhaa youre making my argument
No, I'm dismantling it. You said systems don't exist, then claimed the poor could use force to overthrow them. Force is enforcement. Enforcement is a system. You're admitting systems exist while denying it. That's not me proving your point, that's you contradicting yourself. You've now conceded that coordination, incentives, and power structures are real. Those are the bedrock of every political and economic system. Your laughter doesn't substitute for logic. Either systems exist and shape outcomes, or they don't and force magically solves coordination problems without structure. Pick one. You can't have both.
No. My argument is that everythin reduce to the use of force. You have made every point, that human do not cooperate, that every revolution create new hierarchy and force. All of those are individualist argument.
You've switched arguments mid-debate. Now you're claiming force is individualist, not systemic. That's backwards. Force requires organization, weapons, training, supply chains, coordination. A lone individual with a gun is just a criminal. Power emerges from organized structure, not individual choice. Revolutions create hierarchies because individuals can't sustain cooperation without institutions. You're conflating "force happens" with "individuals cause it," when force is always collective and systemic. Your original claim was systems don't exist. Now you're admitting they do, just calling them "force-based." That's not an individualist argument, that's capitalism with extra steps. You've abandoned your position entirely.
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