"life isn't fair." then make it fair?????? like???? it is your job as authority figures to do so actually. why are we treating the pursuit of fairness and justice like its a juvenile and naive thing to want
@paperwingedowl exactly, society only exists because people decided a naturally unfair world wasn't good enough, so "nature isn't fair" is the reason for the project, not an objection to it
"life isn't fair." then make it fair?????? like???? it is your job as authority figures to do so actually. why are we treating the pursuit of fairness and justice like its a juvenile and naive thing to want
@QuantumG Believing the world already is fair is what makes people blame victims. If everything is deserved, so is misfortune. I'm saying the world often isn't fair and we should work to fix that. Perfect fairness may be unreachable, but so is zero crime. And nobody says we shouldn't try.
@jackantoff Your argument also assumes outcomes track skill. In reality, luck, inheritance and access explain a huge share of who ends up where. Defending systems that reward those things and calling it meritocracy is the naive position.
@jackantoff Nobody argued that everyone should get what they want at the expense of the skilled. Fairness asks that rules apply equally, that opportunity doesn't depend on accidents like where you were born or what your parents own, and that people with power answer for how they use it ---