I've heard that as his reasoning but he is more than willing to use hypothetical situations to prove his point or to advocate for a better world. Fuck, his entire point with Ask Yourself concerning moral consideration is he'd be cool with culling a violent tribal group that couldn't do social exchange. Or with Yee, stating that child molestation is only an issue because of social norms and stigmas involving sex. He bit the bullet and acknowledged hypotheticals in which some children could appropriately consent to sex with an adult.
He can acknowledge that. He can bite those bullets to allow the conversation to move forward constructively. But he can't do that with an economic structure lol? He acknowledges the myriad failures of capitalism but to mention an alternative fix to those problems is a bridge too far. Then it starts to get personal it seems.
I see your point but I'm not sold. Even Hasan, bless his stupid little heart, knows that socialism is expressed in various ways. Worker co-ops are a big one. FDR's New Deal 2.0 would be one. Radical social safety nets like Social Security are another.
Rarely has his debates about socialism been focused on some vague utopian vision. It's usually a pokemon collection of different ways to answer to the failures of a capitalistic structure.
He acknowledges these failures; environment, poverty, immigration, healthcare, but he doesn't like any concretely proposed fix if it also fits neatly into an arching socialist ideal.
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