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1. When I did mention "income inequality"? 2. Your assertion "anyone who makes more than average is greedy" is your own opinion and claim. 3. "saying that hum
by tabeth 9y ago
1. When I did mention "income inequality"?
2. Your assertion "anyone who makes more than average is greedy" is your own opinion and claim.
3. "saying that humans are essentially always guilty of coveting" is also your own claim, and one that I did not make.
In summary, it seems you're projecting some things you believe onto me.
Your last portion is well taken, though. Unfortunately for such a grand claim like the one I made, there (practically) can't be a study that irrefutably proves it. However, most of the modern social issues are inherently ones of superiority, including:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Agism
Arguably any act that harms anyone else is an act of "superiority." For you must believe your ideology or yourself to be superior in order to invoke it. When there are options there will be comparison, and when there's comparison there must be superiority as there's judgment. To judge is only human.
- civilian 9y agoAh, cool. I'll absolutely grant that racism, sexism and agism are all acts of superiority. And "superiority" is a really good way to enrapture the idea of these different biases, that makes sense. Buuuuuuut you posted in a thread about _Hunger_. Hunger comes from poverty-- you're right that income inequality is maybe the wrong word for it, I was taking it a step farther. But from the context, it did feel like you were trying to say the poverty comes from people enacting superiority. And #2 and #3 are my trying to derive other moral positions your that assertion-- so let's put them to the side. But cool, I'm glad we came to a closer understanding. I thought you were taking the common anti-capitalist position that "all businesses are evil!" or something.