[pp.int.general] The true core Pirates principles, -Serious attempt to get a workable consensus - TLDR version

[Zbigniew Łukasiak]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:30 PM,  <thijs.markus at piratenpartij.nl> wrote:
> Let's keep it more simple than a long list:
>
> Our core principle is: to make the decision that is most beneficial to
> most people over the longest term. The rest is circumstantial.

I am afraid this would not be very helpful, because of two things.

First - on some level this is something that everybody agrees about -
and thus it does not work for defining what Pirate Party is - for
differentiating it from any other party.  And that is important,
because we need some group identity.  Imagine that at some point
pirates become popular and that for example a socialist party changes
its name to Pirate Party - they agree with your utilitarian principle
- so I guess we should allow that, then a a nazist party, decides that
their program is also the most beneficial to most people (they just
define people in a different way), and you know.

Second - as a political principle it has the problem that the logical
consequence of it would be taxing the hell out of all developed
nations and transfer all that money to Africa, Latin America and Asia.
 You would need a lot of rhetorical gymnastic to not come out as
hypocrite if you would not do that.

-- 
Zbigniew Lukasiak
http://brudnopispirata.blogspot.com/
http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/