The point is, I did the work and someone tried to convey value
You digress. We've been talking about self rewarding until now.
snatched a waiters tip
An upvote is not a tip someone gives, but an expression of opinion that the content deserves a reward.
your downvote is just an opinion, but their downvote is a gun
When they use it as method of trying to suppress me from expressing my opinion by going after everything I do, even unrewarded comments helping others, and extending this action over others they associate with me, that's a clear yes. If they refuse to give a reason except the kindergarden style "you started" and their only goal is to stop me from expressing my opinion they even admit it.
Oh man. I give up. You keep arguing with faulty comparisons to justify taking funds from a community pool for yourself. Let's agree to disagree and save each other's time instead of running in circles.
Hmm, I thought we were debating flags.
Sheesh, let's shoot for some consistency, okay? If an upvote is an expression of an opinion and it's not a tip, then surely a self-vote must also be an expression of an opinion and not the taking of funds. I mean, this is according to your logic, it's not funds right, it's just an opinion?
Fair enough. I think for today we've reached the stage of beating a dead horse anyway. Thank you for the comment about Ayn Rand, I take it as a compliment because she was a free-market genius. So, I just watched a brief overview of her philosophy of objectivism. I don't think I'll go so far to say that altruism is evil as the video suggested, but now I intend on researching it further to find out why she thinks that way.
Backs slowly away from the keyboard, agreeing to disagree.P.S. Thanks for the chat. Maybe in the future we will
find something else to either agree or disagree on.
Yeah, genius, I figured you'd say that :D
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Objectivism