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Quote by: Merge  I'm not discussing donation, I'm discussing fairness. You are criticizing the position that this billionaire should share his wealth because you say it is unfair. I am saying that if you are to judge situations based on fairness, why is it fair for one person with more opportunities in life to be wealthy while another person with less opportunities is poor? Fairness says that the money is his, but it also says that the money should be distributed to the less fortunate. My point is that the criteria for which you claim the billionaire deserves his wealth (fairness) is the same criteria which dictates that he should spread his wealth.
As for myself, yes, fairness would dictate that I should share my property and wealth with less fortunate people (If I am accurate in my interpretation of fairness). |
I ask you why is it fair for people who, through no fault or effort of their own, have been born into more opportunity to be persecuted by government more than anyone else? I would argue that a fair society should treat everyone as equals, whether or not they are poor or rich, opportunity rich or opportunity poor. Yet you are arguing for a society where because you are rich, or talented, or perhaps just particularly hard working and thrifty, to be treated worse by government. That because you are these things, you are allowed to be stripped of your hard work more than anyone else. it is
you and your ilk that are fighting for an unjust, unfair society.