I've been Thinking

[Jdanz]

i disagree with you, but i don't really have any animosity towards your point of view, and i'm not going to argue with you, but simply question some of your assumptions.

You say that there is no point to living a life in which you are not free, with the obvious hypothesis that there is value to being free (freedom being as you define it, life liberty happiness, to you signified by the free market). I'm not going to disagree with this but simply say that your conception of where value stems from is an assumption and arguable as a fact.

If i were to say that the value of life comes not from being free but from moving the human community foward, or from submission to the will of god i believe these would all be equally worthwhile definitions of "value".

Essentially i don't disagree with your assesment for you however i don't think these are inarguable premises, just the ones you accept, while there are other equally viable and valuable ideas as to what makes life worthwhile.

edit: this thread is filled with people who believe they have a direct line on what is valueable and what is not, which is percisely what they see as anethma in their enemies thinking. There are different conceptions of "good" and "valuable"