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Freedom from interference. Hunger is not of human origin, thus no human can guarantee you freedom from hunger. This is a religious desire. On the other hand, humans can guarantee their own non interference


The human world, for decades, perhaps even centuries, has produced far, far more calories than humans need to avoid hunger. So in fact, humanity can guarantee freedom from hunger. But because we concede control over the distribution of food to the richest and most powerful, people are hungry.


No we cannot because such things require restricting the freedom of others and you yourself cannot feed the world. However you can commit to not interfering in the lives of all eight billion people. It's actually really easy if you put your mind to it . These two things (feeding the world v not interfering) are things of two different categories


the fact that "I, myself" cannot feed the world does not prevent me being a part of systems that can.

i put much less priority on "not interfering" than you, perhaps because i'm a priviledged white anglo middle class dude, or perhaps because i believe different things about the world than you. such as: there's always interfering, it cannot be escaped, it can only be shaped.




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