As armed functionaries stand over you demanding tax to redistribute, remember that some of those funds will be redistributed to tenured radicals paid to dream up new justifications for redistribution.
To be consistent, collectivist intellectuals should favor redistributing wealth from themselves to people who are stupid and uneducated in the name of justice. However, an injustice can be committed only by a moral agent. If a normal human bites you without provocation, that's an injustice because the human is a moral agent. But if a mosquito bites you, that's not an injustice because the mosquito is not a moral agent. Nature is not a moral agent. So, nature can't be guilty of committing an injustice by making some people smarter, strongr, or better looking than others.
This is great, I will come back and read it all later. I have recently been recalling my own experience with humanities professors back in college in the 1980s and I would characterize them thus (similar to the typecast above, but also a little different): Hard Leftist, radical, big egos, sophists, driven by latent resentment, sometimes sloppy in dress, and almost always libertines. I had dealings with three of these types between my ages of 18 and 25 and I have tried to block them out of mind. Yikes.
To be consistent, collectivist intellectuals should favor redistributing wealth from themselves to people who are stupid and uneducated in the name of justice. However, an injustice can be committed only by a moral agent. If a normal human bites you without provocation, that's an injustice because the human is a moral agent. But if a mosquito bites you, that's not an injustice because the mosquito is not a moral agent. Nature is not a moral agent. So, nature can't be guilty of committing an injustice by making some people smarter, strongr, or better looking than others.
All forced redistribution is moral crime. All of it.
This is great, I will come back and read it all later. I have recently been recalling my own experience with humanities professors back in college in the 1980s and I would characterize them thus (similar to the typecast above, but also a little different): Hard Leftist, radical, big egos, sophists, driven by latent resentment, sometimes sloppy in dress, and almost always libertines. I had dealings with three of these types between my ages of 18 and 25 and I have tried to block them out of mind. Yikes.
I don't know you but you are a gas! (I almost spat out my coffee.)