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Merge mind. That it.
I want all people on earth link their mind, to become one.
Because most of hardship, miserable i had in my life was cause by another.
If we link our mind, each each of a "body" as our own, they we are much better happy and archived more than what we are now.
So you'd sacrifice individuality? That's a good scifi one.
If The internet gets good enough with chips in our head and everything. I guess that's what we'd basically have. Access to each other's memories and senses. Just ghosts and an internet of flesh
If you play Sellaris, there are hive mind ascension. So a civilization might be once individual like human, but in the end, they become hive mind. By psychic enlightenment, or by machine augmentation, or by genetic manipulation ...
Private property. Remove that and many problems will solve themselves real quick, though that will also cause a large number of human deaths before things stabilize
Those are all things that can make a better society. Why do they need to be given up?
Define better.
Nice try conservative policy maker!
I would don the black hood and swing the ax
Tis messy work, but it's gotta be done
We dont need to give up anything we just need change. Regulations are what keeps capitalism from killing us all and this planet. We have allowed deregulation to put us in this spot and its going to get worst.
Conservatives.
Sometimes I sit down and muse about the great world we could create if everything was owned by the state, only approved speech was allowed, if only the best people were allowed to reproduce and everyone was only allowed to think approved thoughts. Like to get my Utopia I am even willing to subject an innocent child to a life of constant suffering and misery...
Every last person working to make it a worse world.
Out of the ones you listed, freedom to breed
For me that would depend on whether it's just my personal freedom to do so or all of humanity's. I didn't come to the hypothetical thought experiment question thread to not kill 8 billion fucking people.
Provided they don't touch freedom to not breed, and we don't put racist ducks in charge, I think that works be the easiest for me to bear.
But I don't want kids, so it's not much of a sacrifice.
How much better of a world? I'd be happy with half of what I have if it meant literally everyone else in the world could have that much, certainly. Move 4 more people into the house and give up half the money, half the clothes, my car, of course I would do that if it brought the same level of wealth to every single person, it would be not great at first but wow can you imagine how fast it would get better, if nobody was terribly poor? I'd bet that by the time I was old we'd personally be better off than before the split.
The trump family grifters and all their sycophantic (lookin' at you Lindsay Graham) enablers
The landlords.
There are a lot of them so it would be exhausting work to behead them all myself but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make
my chains. i've nothing else to lose.
And then it got worse
This one.
Burger King's Chicken fries
If you're not free, the world isn't free.
Some billionaires
A better world would imply that its better even when considering the sacrifice, meaning that any sacrifice would be worth it
I mean, in an overall sense yes, but that's like saying climbing Everest is easy because on average the world has very little elevation change.
It's hard to imagine a world with no freedom of thought being better, somehow.
In practice, I doubt we'll ever have to sacrifice much more than we already have. (Which is actually a significant amount. For example, until recent history living on a schedule was for ascetics and flagellants)
Private property for sure, as I don't have any.
Freedom of speech too, as I don't have any.
I'd sacrifice social media algorithms. Delete them all.
No, not "algorithms" are the problem, but the capitalist who own social media and the algorithms on these.
A sacrifice is something you like and want to keep, but you're going to give it up for a higher good.
Yeah, a lot of these are just things that the commenter obviously wants to get rid of. It would be more of a "2 birds, one stone" than an actual sacrifice.
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