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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most importantly with respect to elf/goblin part: I found that distasteful and resent the implication that I said anything to that degree. I do not think people are fundamentally different, only that the conditions (material basis and social superstructures) that they find themselves in allow for and promotes certain kinds of actions and ways of being.

In Tolkien's lore goblins were made from elves through torture and various degrading conditions and magic.

I agree about trust, but it can't be global, only friend-to-friend, in real life as well.

And trust in government should be taboo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I thought it was Morgoth, a valar and not an elf, who made them. In any case it twists the causal relationship because the goblins subsequently make their own pitiful conditions. I do not condone the terminology even if solely on the basis of how reductionist it is. Since a government is, in its pure form, only a body of people, you can translate trust between people and trust between a government if it is sufficiently representative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Since a government is, in its pure form, only a body of people,

That implies that logical structure of that body is negligible, if used to transfer human traits to a government.