"It is often advantageous for one human to employ coercion or violence against another for purposes of imposing one’s will, typically in crimes of passion or to expropriate another’s wealth."
I don't think that's true at all. Why do the freest society's always tend to win conflicts? If the West's superiority was due to slavery, it would have never achieved superiority, since virtually EVERY society during the Enlightenment had some form of slavery. The West's triumph was a victory for the idea of human individual rights; and to the extent it implemented those ideas in law it created the conditions for flourishing and has the technology that allows for military victory *when* it chooses to use it (as it did in WW2 or in the US Civil War).
Slavery and coercion is not, ultimately, to anyone's advantage - including the so called beneficiary of it. In the same way, and for the same reason, you could claim snorting heroin and cocaine all day makes for happiness; but everyone expects to survive more than a few hours or a day, or even a year, and for the same cause drug abuse is not a successful long term survival and flourishing strategy.
Very interesting, it piqued my curiosity and I'm going to check out this book ;)
"It is often advantageous for one human to employ coercion or violence against another for purposes of imposing one’s will, typically in crimes of passion or to expropriate another’s wealth."
I don't think that's true at all. Why do the freest society's always tend to win conflicts? If the West's superiority was due to slavery, it would have never achieved superiority, since virtually EVERY society during the Enlightenment had some form of slavery. The West's triumph was a victory for the idea of human individual rights; and to the extent it implemented those ideas in law it created the conditions for flourishing and has the technology that allows for military victory *when* it chooses to use it (as it did in WW2 or in the US Civil War).
Slavery and coercion is not, ultimately, to anyone's advantage - including the so called beneficiary of it. In the same way, and for the same reason, you could claim snorting heroin and cocaine all day makes for happiness; but everyone expects to survive more than a few hours or a day, or even a year, and for the same cause drug abuse is not a successful long term survival and flourishing strategy.
You are GOAT Robert. Please infiltrate into Joe Rogan or Tucker’s podcast and spread the truth🌈😂