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> He seems to believe that everyone ends up in life where they deserve This is posed as a bad thing, but there are lots of people on this site who tell themsel
by InitialLastName 7y ago
> He seems to believe that everyone ends up in life where they deserve
This is posed as a bad thing, but there are lots of people on this site who tell themselves this very thing.
- thom 7y agoThen I very much hope they do indeed get what they deserve.
- badpun 7y agoA world where everybody gets what they deserve is a just world - is that so bad?
- InitialLastName 7y agoI'd say that depends very much on who decides who deserves what. Justice is inherently malleable and subjective. It's a thing we humans (as a society) decide to do to one another. As far as I can tell, it tends to lag the scales we're operating at.
- badpun 7y agoI'm assuming it would happen automatically - i.e. people would be judged by all-knowing and impartial external parties (angels, aliens etc.) - otherwise of course it cannot happen, i.e. of course people alone can never implement true justice. As for defining what is just - this is obviously a huge subject studied by philosophers - but I'm assuming that, if we had these all-knowing judges, they could just assess (by scanning thoughts of people) how hard everybody is trying to do good to others. And this way, we would be living in a just world. To repeat my question - would that be so bad?
- hprotagonist 7y agoYes.