It Is, From Another Angle, An Attack

Suppose There Were An Experience Machine That Would Give You Any Experience You Desired. Superduper Neuropsychologists Could Stimulate Your Brain So That You Would Think And Feel You Were Writing A Great Novel, Or Making A Friend, Or Reading An Interesting Book. All The Time You Would Be Floating In A Tank, With Electrodes Attached To Your Brain. Should You Plug Into This Machine For Life, Preprogramming Your Life Experiences?...of Course, While In The Tank You Won't Know That You're There; You'll Think That It's All Actually Happening...would You Plug In?

Utopia Is A Meta-utopia: The Environment In Which Utopian Experiments May Be Tried Out; The Environment In Which People Are Free To Do Their Own Thing; The Environment Which Must, To A Great Extent, Be Realized First If More Particular Utopian Visions Are To Be Realized Stably.

And Although It Might Be Best Of All To Be Socrates Satisfied, Having Both Happiness And Depth, We Would Give Up Some Happiness In Order To Gain The Depth.

You Can't Satisfy Everybody; Especially If There Are Those Who Will Be Dissatisfied Unless Not Everybody Is Satisfied.

Taxation Of Earnings From Labor Is On A Par With Forced Labor. Seizing The Results Of Someone's Labor Is Equivalent To Seizing Hours From Him And Directing Him To Carry On Various Activities.