marklgr

Depends on what you call enlightenment. In the zen/taoist sense, it actually results from _dropping_ your expectations, ie. just do your stuff.

Even though the view is mainstream, compatibilists have a lot of serious objections to deal with, so the point is far from "obvious".

That's incapacitation, not retribution.

They don't fail to see it, they just object to calling it "fair".

Blame shifting works both way: some people don't take any responsibility while they should, and some other promptly gives full responsibility to victims.

There's always a payoff to one's view of the world, whatever it is.

Bringing jobs to poor countries does bring some wealth to them, so it helps reduce global inequality, but that wealth is extremely inequally shared, for several reasons (eg. the poor workforce has zero bargaining power, few labor laws etc.)--thus this also transfers more equitable profit-sharing work to much less equitable parts of the world. The net result is often debatable.

'Forced' is a loaded term, I think. Strongly 'incentivized' cooperation can have lots of merits in certain cases, eg. situations derived from prisoner's dilemma.

If a 'player' wants to break out of the cooperation, he can (so this is not 'forced' stricto sensus), but there would presumably be costs from the defection--the other cooperating players might refrain from doing business with the former.

Checking something out on some server does not require remapped keys or commands: you generally just browse some file and fix a couple of things. Tweaked configuration for more involved tasks is fine, to me.

It depends on whether you think competition is _always, indisputably_ good, and cooperation _always, indisputably_ inferior and/or suspicious.