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> How do we choose who has to sacrifice? The people who want to hold the moral high ground have to also accept the suffering and sacrifice that go with it. "Do
by cbozeman 5y ago
> How do we choose who has to sacrifice?
The people who want to hold the moral high ground have to also accept the suffering and sacrifice that go with it. "Doing the right thing" has a cost to it. That's exactly why I call these people out. They want to be seen as good people, but aren't willing to suffer the burden that goodness requires.
> Isn’t one group bearing the brunt of sacrifice the very definition of inequality.
No, it isn't, because I'm talking about voluntarily sacrificing for your community in the pursuit of a higher good than your own personal enrichment and the enrichment of your children.
> Often times it could be a rich person defending his property name but it could just add easily be a poor family.
Define "rich". Define "poor". When I was a young child, people who could afford to eat three meals a day were "rich". Today, I define "poor" as being unable to eat at a restaurant every day of the week and not being able to afford a first-class flight. It's an ever-sliding scale based on your own income, and everyone's comfortable sacrificing more - or less - than someone else.