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This equating of what-you-put-in to what-you-get-out is a moral choice you can make, but it's easy not to make it. It's widely recognized as hateful. - people'
by sixo 4y ago
This equating of what-you-put-in to what-you-get-out is a moral choice you can make, but it's easy not to make it. It's widely recognized as hateful.
- people's particular successes depend onthw rest of society, they didn't create everything themselves. This should factor into the deservingness calculation.
- we have an instinctual desire to take care of the needy (children and elderly in particular); not to honor this would be inhuman.
- and: why? Why be so selfish, when you have the option to love others and be kind to them? What are you really getting out of it? Rewarding yourself, your whims and appetites... It's stupid. It's hollow, and contemptible, and childish. You can be so much better than that.
- readthenotes1 4y agoThat last paragraph does indeed sound hateful.
- ashleyn 4y agoOP might also want to consider the negative impacts of inequality on society as a whole. A society where material security is the exclusive privilege of the innately talented is probably not going to be much of a society worth living in.