On Hospital
Hospital should not exist. The decay of human body, especially aging, is a natural phenomenon. Medical and treatment that intent to prolong life is a resistant to nature. Human will of “the soul obtaining the body longer”, is an act of forcing particles in the body not going back to a cycle of forming other organic matter. As when human body decay, no matter in what way the body will be treated(fire/ under soil/ in some culture fed to animals, etc), it eventually could return to the natural cycle.
The idea of “if hospital does not exist, only the stronger human being (people with wealth and resource?) survive, is not a statement that could be support with the arguments that it contradict the idea of democracy, or it manifests Darwinism.
When hospital exist : Receiving hospital treatment could be part of medical insurance (social awareness that form support for “the weak”). Yet most treatment costs money, therefore, “the weak” are likely not getting same service as “the strong”. Thus, the problem of inequalities exist with the existence of hospitals.
If hospital disappear : it is possible that the wealthy can still receive medical treatment from private doctor, yet this is probably not a part of the opponent’s argument. My belief system is not a critique on the medical system or the hospital, it is a critique on “the significance of prolonging human life”. Any kind of treatment, medication, including private doctor, is a violation of my belief. Thus if private doctor practice as the executor of prolonging life, they should not exist.
The topic is not necessarily relevant to democracy. As countries with other kinds of government body do have legislation considering “helping the weak”. Democracy is the ideology that manifest freedom of speech, or freedom of association. It cannot guarantee the “absolute equality” in the distribution of resource. Especially in modern days, capitalism (as an economic system) does not conflict with democracy (a political system). The socialist planned economies of the former Soviet Union might have involved the gather and redistribution of income and wealth. But that is probably far from our discussion.
The argument: “any kind of method of prolonging human life is against nature,” is not a manifest of Darwinism. Darwin suggests that by the laws of nature, humans are just one life form among many, with no natural end or purpose except to survive and reproduce. Nihilism claims that there is no rationally discoverable standard in nature for giving moral weight to human life. My thoughts are similar to Darwin and Nihilism in the way that I also believe humans are not more superior than other lifes. However, in my mind, humans, or any living organism, are not more superior than any objects with no live. They are not more superior than dirt, water, or rock.
Living organisms could be more complicated in their formation. They have the potential to grow and reproduce, yet the forming substances of any living matter, from molecular level, are the same as that of objects with no life. From my perspective, there is a loss in translation between human and animals, and between human to inanimate objects. Thus human can never fully understand other living organisms or non-living matters comprehensively, on metaphysical level. For example, it is easy to deduct from a rock that does not move or reproduce, to the conclusion that it is not a living organism. Yet one cannot know if a rock never thinks or reasons. And this is the reason of, in my project I do not agree with human activity of preserving historical objects / prolonging their state as man made objects.
Darwinism states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Hospitals, or any kind of medical treatment, could be the result of human evolution to compete, survive, and reproduce. Thus the emergence and development of science and medical could be explained by Darwinism. My intention to eliminate these facilities and methods, is not against Darwinism, yet not a manifest of Darwinism. I understand and agree with the phenomenon and theories, yet propose a different reaction to these phenomenon (human science/ technology/ medical/ etc.)
My belief system probably coincides with some ideas in Nihilism or Taoism. Research will go on and be finished by this weekend, well, for this project. Some of my thoughts could sound misanthropic, yet I don’t think I am dark or aggressive. I constantly question and critique the existence and value of human beings or knowledge, yet enjoy learning about them. I keep insisting that I don’t want to know about society or politics yet cannot help being curious about them. Probably the way I view the world is way too objective and lack humanity. To some extent I do not have any ego or the awareness of being a human.
Terms
Democracy, originated from Greek, usually refer to a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting. It contrasts with forms of government where power is either held by an individual, as in an absolute monarchy or where power is held by a small number of individuals, as in an oligarchy.
Athenian democracy took the form of a direct democracy, and it had two distinguishing features: the random selection of ordinary citizens to fill the few existing government administrative and judicial offices, and a legislative assembly consisting of all Athenian citizens.
Difficulties in measuring democracy:
Democracy is an overarching concept that includes the functioning of diverse institutions which are not easy to measure, strong limitations exist in quantifying and econometrically measuring the potential effects of democracy or its relationship with other phenomena - whether inequality, poverty, education, etc.
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.
According to Marxist theory, class conflict arises in capitalist societies due to contradictions between the material interests of the oppressed proletariat—a class of wage labourers employed to produce goods and services—and the bourgeoisie—the ruling class that owns the means of production and extract their wealth through appropriation of the surplus product (profit) produced by the proletariat.
According to the orthodox Marxist theory, the overthrow of capitalism by a socialist revolution in contemporary society is inevitable. All Marxists believe socialism is a necessity, if not inevitable.
Marxism–Leninism
In political science, Marxism–Leninism is the ideology combining Marxist socioeconomic theory and Leninist political praxis, which was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), of the Communist International, and of Stalinist political parties.
The purpose of Marxism–Leninism is the revolutionary development of a capitalist state into a socialist state, affected by the leadership of a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries from the working class (the proletariat). The socialist state is realized by way of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which determines policy with democratic centralism (diversity in discussion and unity in action).
Democratic centralism is a democratic practice in which political decisions reached by voting processes are binding upon all members of the party.
Redistribution of income and Wealth
Different types of economic systems feature varying degrees of interventionism aimed at redistributing income, depending on how unequal their initial distributions of income are. Free-market capitalist economies tend to feature high degrees of income redistribution. However, Japan's government engages in much less redistribution because its initial wage distribution is much more equal than Western economies. Likewise, the socialist planned economies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc featured very little income redistribution because private capital and land income – the major drivers of income inequality in capitalist systems – was virtually nonexistent; and because the wage rates were set by the government in these economies.
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
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