Yeah, but I don’t want to have sex with the men. (you should be thanking your lucky stars–you’re one of the 7 billion.)
You see, that’s just not something I can relate to. My idea of the perfect world doesn’t have to include an infinite amount of the things I want. Four billion women would be quite enough for me. One house to live in would be quite enough. I could even be happy. I think most people measure the value of life–whether it is fundamentally good or bad–based on how happy they are, not on whether or not they have access to an infinite amount of the things that make them happy.
Hey, you don’t have to worry about being rude to me. This is ILP. Being an asshole is the norm here.
Maybe we can stick with an example to make this simpler. Let’s stick with the example of buying a house. So I’ve got $500,000 (let’s just say), and I use it to buy a house from someone. I’ve now got that house and the seller has lost that house. ← zero/sum, right? But at the same time, I’ve lost $500,000 and he’s gained $500,000. ← Again, zero/sum. The idea of exchanges like this in a free market is that even though you are losing something, the money you get in return is the equivalent in value. The idea is that it’s like you never lost anything. And not the mention the fact that, so long as the exchange is consensual, everyone’s happy (i.e. nobody actually feels like they’ve lost).
True, not all transactions are like this–some people get ripped off, some people are the victims of theft and rape, some exchanges leave long term damage (to the environment, to one’s health, to the economy), so it’s not a perfect system, but I’d like to stick with the example of buying a house because you say even that is an example of ultimate loss.
I’d like to understand what it is about that specific scenario that counts as “evil”. It can’t be that somebody actually experiences a loss because everyone walks away happy in the end–I get my house, he gets his money–and if it’s just the fact that I had to give something up to get my house (i.e. why I couldn’t just have the house and keep my money), why is that “evil”? If it’s because that somehow sends me to hell when I die, how does that work?