>>13071229>Also can you give a brief rundown on why the natural purpose only involves reducing potential energy and not increasing it?This is the second law of thermodynamics.
>>13054537 These buckets. This is what the universe allows to naturally happen. If we "go with the flow" here, life become easier, more streamlined, and without resistance.
Arguing that we should "increase potential energy" is like saying that the water in that lower bucket should fly upwards and voluntarily go back into the top bucket. That's incredibly difficult to do, requires a considerable amount of work, and the universe will work as hard as it can to ensure that the water flows back down into the lower bucket.
The basic recipe for life is cellular respiration, chemically identical to fire for the most part, and this means that our purpose in this reality is identical to that of fire.
>truly are the useful idiot here as well as a big time dogmatist.Why would I, a lowly peasant, actively seek to betray and wage war against the most powerful military nation in the world. One which has given me a good life, a comfortable life, and a reasonable education from which, through self-improvement, I become capable of providing value to the world and returning some of the value which was given to me, for free, by this country.
Even if you are an ingrate and say that this token of good faith means nothing, it is clearly suicidal and pointless for peasants to try and attack the people with the capacity to destroy the world, including any peasants who try to attack it.
America, however, is not a particularly statist nation. America, as you know, is a "free, liberal, democratic society". I see this as a source of suffering in the lives of many people. By arguing for Statism, I am seen as both anti-American, and perhaps an enemy of the state. I argue for this because of my loyalty to the nation, because I know that this pursuit will allow it to become more powerful, healthier, and happier
