Patria Antiqua
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- Aug 22, 2010
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You still haven't told me why the unfairness of a situation isn't reason to overthrow it. All you have told me is that some may disagree with my view of fairness.Actually its not, because "fairness" is an intangiable abstraction that is identified differently based on the vantage point of an individual.
You see "fairness" in taking money from people you think don't deserve it and giving it to "less fortunate.". Where as others see taking money from people who have worked to earn said money and giving it to people who haven't worked to earn it as inherently "unfair". Your particular viewpoint of what is or isn't fair is, frankly, irrelevant and far from being some kind of universal guiding tool.
Fairness, like beauty and many other things, is in the eye of the beholder. The issue with trying to pass or push for any kind of government legislation based on "fairness" is the fact that its a meaningless word that could mean a dozen things to a dozen people.
This is irrelevant to me. There will always be people with inconvenient or backward ways of thinking. As far as I'm concerned, that some are born serfs and others are born masters is not a fair system, and that view holds regardless of who does or does not "work" for their money.
In any event, wealth gained through the exploitation of those who create it (the workers) is not wealth anyone has a right to. It is unarguable that capitalism makes it impossible for anyone to be paid a fair price for their work.
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