… unless the person works voluntarily, that is.

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    If everyone lived vegan people would be compelled to work as they are able in order to not cause undue burden on others, which again would not be vegan.

    i don’t quite get your last sentence. what if the person themselves doesn’t want to work?

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      If the person doesn’t want to work how will they sustain themselves? They have to rely on other peoples labor without contributing their own. If people don’t want to subsidize someone else then that person would either have to start working “against their will” or take other peoples labor without consent, which you have already pointed out, is not vegan. So if everyone were vegan that person would be compelled to work as they are able in order to be able to remain vegan.

      Idk its kinda tortured logic when spelling it all out lol

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        Nature compells us to work for food anyway, that’s not exploitation and coercion, that’s just survival.

        The construct of society is predicated on the idea of “from each… to each…” That saying often gets conflated with left-wing politics, but that’s just the point of animals (humans included) grouping together; after all, what’s the point of living in society if it doesn’t convey any benefits to the individual that they could not provide for themselves? That would be exploitative of the individual. But if they are benefitting, then it is only fair and just to also give back to the society one extracts benefits from, otherwise it is exploitative of the others.

        Put another way: no one should be obligated to participate in society, but then society should likewise have no obligations to the non-participants.

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          Nature compells us to work for food anyway, that’s not exploitation and coercion, that’s just survival.

          Not all of us ahem bourgeoisie ahem

          The construct of society is predicated on the idea of “from each… to each…”

          of course, however what makes a societies differ is exactly what gets filled in to the “…”

          “from each slave to each slavemaster” -> slavery
          “from each serf to each lord” -> feudalism
          “from each worker to each owner” -> capitalism
          “from each person (according to their ability) to each person (according to their need)” -> socialism 😄