RE: Some thoughts about the obvious.
Your definition of evil I think is quite specific, saying, for example, that since you believe that freedom and independence are good, then you believe that anything contrary to such is bad. Right
Basically it is this. It is quite simple. That is why I use it now. I haven't been able to reduce it any further.
I am born. I have my body. I have my mind. I gather food. I seek shelter. I use my mind. I create.
Nowhere in there does it say I make someone do what I want. Nowhere in there does it say I attack others. Nowhere in there does it say I steal from others.
If it is voluntary it is good. (your choice)
If it is involuntary (someone else forcing you) it is evil.
Now there will always be good and evil. So you must be able to defend yourself and your property.
The biggest difference between soo.chong163 and I stems around property. I believe in private property. He/She/They do not.
I believe if I created something with my own hands and I did not enter contract to create it for someone else for some agreed upon exchange then the item is my property. soo.chong163 does not.
So yes, I am pretty sure they are a Marxist. I've seen a lot of that type of thinking in their responses. Whether they self-identify as that I don't know. He/She/They call me a Libertarian. Really I am not. I was. I am more of a minarchist, voluntarist.
We must adapt to new information and change with it. I can see that you do that.
Also, how are things going for you in Venezuela? It seems to be heating up politically speaking down there.
Oh, tension has increased, contrasted with the last few months that had gone off a bit. There is a certain "Middle Eastern country" climate, if you understand what I mean. All people accelerated and a loose energy there. There is a state of alert.
Government and the opposition tried to mobilize people who don't have, because both lack popularity really, but there is that preparation aura.
Actually there are not many factual changes, only a psychological weight and a generalized stress, united of course to the whole "common" situation.
Do you see any light at the end of the tunnel for escaping the socialism?
Of course, I think it's already at the end of the tunnel, whatever happens, I really think that there is relatively little left. Nor is it possible to be pessimistic at this point.
The government itself has retracted some of its measures silently, it is simply not possible for them to govern with the same measures that don't work, because the more they maintain them, the more they lose power, and the more they are ignored by the population.