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It's amazing how many people believe that Just World nonsense. Truly staggering.

• s73ver_ 9y ago
  I don't think it's bad to desire it, or to try and work toward making it more of a reality.
  • albemuth 9y ago
    It is a harmful belief to hold when it affects policies that keeps underprivileged people that way.
    • s73ver_ 9y ago
      Right, it makes absolutely no sense to believe in it now, when it clearly does not exist. But I don't think it's a bad thing to work toward, and actual just world.
      • KozmoNau7 9y ago
        No, of course not. An actual, genuinely real just world would be amazing. But that would also include eliminating luck or random chance, which just ain't happening.
        • s73ver_ 9y ago
          Not eliminating. Just recognizing it more.
    • liberte82 9y ago
      We're in that weird in-between period where the land of equal opportunity is quickly slipping away, but people still believe it exists. It's no different from a caste system or any other class system that justifies our lot in life as deserved. It just has its own uniquely American flavor to it that is based on America's own fundamentalist religion (individuality and the belief in equal opportunity for all). The fundamentalist belief that America "is fair to all" can't be broken, so we develop rationalizations to bridge the gap between expectations and reality.
• bshimmin 9y ago
  Don't most religions basically teach this? "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"?
  • Balgair 9y ago
    I believe that Garrison Keillor said it best:" The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Many 'prosperity' gospel folk forget the second half for a few years and don't plan correctly. Then they end up as the first half without any comfort.