one angle explored was the idea of retributive justice against successful countries - i.e. for winning wars. I'm not really sure I understand what is meant here - war is generally not profitable.
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one of the interesting things done to ignore the poor in your own people is to look at, say, average wages, and by that comparison declare a country "rich" and therefore that it has to redistribute its wealth. They did this to us in Intervarsity; comparison of wages.
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not discussed: 1. that a dollar a day buys a lot more necessities when an orange is a cent; 2. the massive distortion to local economies created by the export of either money or goods, often highly destructive, rarely beneficial except during disasters.
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in theory I understand the idea, at least from the standpoint of "your own" resources. In no case do modern states have "their own resources"; public resources belong to the whole realm, allegedly, and leaders should not simply dispense them like candy.
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it's like this idea where someone said the other day that aliens were going to grant us five trillion dollars a year to do research on something. That's ridiculous; they're not giving us ANYTHING; 5tril/year is a lot of resource distortion.
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redistribution schemes make me suspicious, even more so under the guise of religion.
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"you are required to pay for other people's irresponsibility because you were not irresponsible" is not "true religion", Oh, that some had not gotten a taste of sovereignty.
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