> No, society should seek to maximize widespread improvements in quality of life and further humanities cause through social, technological, and cultural investments
That's just your point of view. "Society" is not a unique body, it should be based on the sum of the individual aspirations of everyone part of it.
>>> The only thing society should do is ensure everyone has the same rights in regard to the Law no matter how rich, how poor, how different you may be. Anything beyond is just a call for arms-race to make everyone the same in every aspect (and incidentally, to render everyone poor by default).
And that's just your point of view. You're just arguing over what society should be, neither of you are privileged to The One True Definition.
That's just your point of view. "Society" is not a unique body, it should be based on the sum of the individual aspirations of everyone part of it.