/lit/ - Literature

>>17598133
I'm personally much less frustrated with people that use verbiage like "basic human decency" because at least they're not using concrete political terminology like "basic human rights" incorrectly for the sake of removing any chance of discourse without a 45-minute debate about semantics.
And then you press them further and they say
>"oh, well my definition of 'right' is [describes the opposite of a right]"
If you want to claim socialism falls under an indefinable trait like 'decency' then go ahead, at least you're honest about the subjectivity of your statement, and not trying to mask your stupidity behind entitlements that mysteriously come at the cost of everyone else. Those people need to be sent to Hobbesian reeducation camps, my first order of business when I become the leviathan

>>17305546
Do go on

>>17182681
Hello there

>>17140980
Leviathan is the most recent good writing on political philosophy

>>17094455
Oh I have. SUMMON THE LEVIATHAN.

>read book in public
>people look at me
>think I'm both imposing and intelligent
>the unwashed masses declare me to be America's Hobbesian Leviathan
>I declare seasons to start on the first of the month (March, June, September, December)
>I declare The Scarlet Letter to be an illegal book and burn every copy of it
>I charge Pete Davidson with high treason and have him sentenced to a lifetime of working as a mechanic in rural Iowa and reading books written by Bill O'Reilly
>all of America's problems evaporate
Pic related. Thought I looked cute, might delete later idk