'Fair', 800 BC: king is merciful, does not play favorites. 800 AD: fraternal compassion a la Christianity, Islam. 1200 AD: Baron rights...
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...1700 AD: Fair=enlightened decision based on reason. 1890: non-monopoly of capital. 1970: non-discrimination. 1995: real meritocracy.2015?
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love this list - 197x+ must include Rawls, innate differences are hella unfair ;)
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Rawls is like "ok if beauty/intelligence varies by factors you have no control over then you have no moral right to its fruits"
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then he's like "did you think this is somehow different for industriousness/hard work"
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not saying I agree but it's a superb troll
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yeah, Rawls is in there somewhere, and veil of ignorance arguments are v. pertinent right now
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My first headlong charge at this whole memespace was kinda messy ribbonfarm.com/2014/08/20/the ...planning a better one
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interaction of ancestral modes of feeling/behavior with new entities
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